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The Public Prosecution Service of Canada (PPSC; French: Service des poursuites pénales du Canada (SPPC)) was established on December 12, 2006, by the Director of Public Prosecutions Act. [2] A federal agency, the PPSC prosecutes offences on behalf of the Government of Canada.
In Canada, Crown Attorney Office refers to the offices in each province that are in charge of prosecuting the majority of criminal cases. For the most part, each office is under the jurisdiction of the provincial Attorney General (or the Minister of Justice in Quebec), who is responsible for the conduct of criminal prosecutions at the provincial level.
Crown attorneys or crown counsel (French: Procureur(e) de la Couronne) or, in Alberta and New Brunswick, crown prosecutors [1] [2] [note 1] are the prosecutors in the legal system of Canada. Crown attorneys represent the Crown and act as prosecutor in proceedings under the Criminal Code and various other statutes.
From 2001 till his appointment as a judge, Devlin served as a federal prosecutor and Senior General Counsel with Public Prosecution Service of Canada, during which he regularly appeared on behalf of the crown in front of the Supreme Court of Canada. [4] There he argued prominent cases like R v. Topp, Mills v. R, R v. Marakah and R v. Taylor. [5 ...
This is the only Canadian Ministry (other than that of the prime minister) which has not been reorganized since its creation in 1867. A separate cabinet position, the minister of public safety (formerly known as the "solicitor general") administers the law enforcement agencies (police, prisons, and security) of the federal government.
Senior General Counsel (French: Avocat général principal) is the chief public prosecutor at the federal level in Canada. The SGC leads an office of General Counsel known as Public Prosecution Service of Canada.
A Canada women’s soccer team staff member has been given an eight-month suspended prison sentence after a drone incident, the Saint-Etienne prosecutor’s office said.
The term Crown Attorney's Office is the title for the various public prosecution offices (16 across Ontario) under the jurisdiction of the province of Ontario. [1] Each Ontario Superior Court of Justice has its own Crown Attorney's Office, which conducts all criminal trial prosecutions and summary conviction appeals for cases that the province is responsible for in that court's geographical ...