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The Court of King's Bench of New Brunswick consists of a Chief Justice among 17 judicial seats, [4] plus a number of justices who have elected supernumerary status after many years of service and after having attained eligibility for retirement. [5] This tally does not include the 8 judicial seats assigned for the family court.
The Moncton Law Courts (French: Palais de Justice Moncton) is a courthouse building in Downtown Moncton, New Brunswick.It is one of several courthouses which host hearings of the Court of King's Bench of New Brunswick and the Provincial Court of New Brunswick.
Robert J. Higgins (born January 13, 1934) is a supernumerary justice on the Court of King's Bench of New Brunswick and a former member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick who served as the leader of the New Brunswick Liberal Party from 1971 to 1978. Robert Higgins was born in Saint John in 1934. [1]
Smith stated that he was "surprised to learn that the minister of justice had introduced a bill subjecting decisions of the chief justice of the Court of Queen's Bench to his consent without any notice to or consultation with that chief justice." [1] Bill 21 lapsed when Gallant ended the first session of the 58th New Brunswick Legislature. [2]
Former Chief Justices of New Brunswick; Ambassadors, High Commissioners, Ministers Plenipotentiary, and Chargé d'Affaires with precedence to their date of appointment; Members of the Executive Council of New Brunswick with precedence in accordance with the Executive Council Act; Leader of the Opposition; Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench
King's Bench jurisdiction or King's Bench power is the extraordinary jurisdiction of an individual state's highest court over its inferior courts. In the United States, the states of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Florida, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma and Wisconsin [1] use the term to describe the extraordinary jurisdiction of their highest court, called the Court of Appeals in New York or the ...
The court system of New Brunswick also has a Mental Health Court located in Saint John. The provincial bench has 22 judges, 9 supernumerary judges (as of February 2018), and 2 per diem judges. [ 1 ]
The first is the term "provincial court", which has two quite different meanings, depending on context. The first, and most general meaning, is that a provincial court is a court established by the legislature of a province, under its constitutional authority over the administration of justice in the province, set out in s. 92(14) of the Constitution Act, 1867. [2]