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Appeals from the Court of Appeal lie with the Supreme Court of Canada, Canada's court of last resort. Other than certain criminal matters, appeals to the Supreme Court of Canada are heard only by leave of that court. Since the Supreme Court denies leave in most cases, the Court of Appeal is the final court for most matters originating in Alberta.
The Alberta Court of Justice (formerly the Provincial Court of Alberta [1]) is the provincial court for the Canadian province of Alberta. The Court oversees matters relating to criminal law, family law, youth law, civil law and traffic law. More than 170,000 matters come before the Court every year.
Madu resumed working as a lawyer in private practice after his defeat in the 2023 Alberta general election. In October 2024, the Law Society of Alberta issued a decision that Madu's conduct in the Edmonton traffic ticket incident was a breach of a lawyer's professional duties constituting grounds for sanction. In February 2025, a law society ...
1.2 Alberta. 1.3 British Columbia. 1.4 Manitoba. 1.5 New Brunswick. ... List of final courts of appeal in Canada. For details on the court system, see Canadian court ...
A traffic ticket is a notice issued by a law enforcement official to a motorist or other road user, indicating that the user has violated traffic laws. Traffic tickets generally come in two forms, citing a moving violation , such as exceeding the speed limit , or a non-moving violation, such as a parking violation , with the ticket also being ...
One of the first reported criminal cases regarding drinking and driving in Canada was an Alberta decision in 1920 called R. v. Nickle.In that case, the appeal court found that the act of driving while intoxicated was an unlawful act that could support a manslaughter conviction.
Lords of the Western Bench: A Biographical History of the Supreme and District Courts of Alberta, 1876-1990. Calgary: Legal Archives Society of Alberta. ISBN 978-0-9681939-0-7. Middelstadt, David (2014). People principles progress : the Alberta Court of Appeal's first century, 1914-2014 (PDF). Calgary: The Legal Archives Society of Alberta.
The Appeals Commission, which is independent from the Workers' Compensation Board, is the final level of appeal for workers and employers who disagree with a WCB decision Calgary Subdivision & Development Appeal Board [16] city planning: The Calgary SDAB is a quasi-judicial board that hears appeals related to decisions made by the City of ...