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The department's responsibilities reflect the double role of the Minister of Justice, who is also by law the Attorney General of Canada: in general terms, the Minister is concerned with the administration of justice, including policy in such areas as criminal law, family law, human rights law, and Aboriginal justice; the Attorney General is the ...
The officeholder in the role of Minister of Justice (French: Ministre de la Justice) serves as the minister of the Crown responsible for the Department of Justice and the justice portfolio, and in the role of Attorney General (French: Procureur général), [8] litigates on behalf of the Crown and serves as the chief legal advisor to the ...
The public servant in charge of the Canadian Department of Justice (French: Ministère de la Justice du Canada) holds the dual titles of Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney General of Canada. The deputy minister provides advice and support to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada (an elected official) and acts as the ...
Department of Justice, also called a ministry of justice; United States Department of Justice; Department of Justice (Philippines) Department of Justice (Canada) Double Open Jaw, a kind of open-jaw ticket used for calculating airfares
The Department of Justice and Attorney General in New Brunswick, a Canadian province, is one of the longest running departments in the New Brunswick government. Traditionally headed by the Attorney General , the functions of the attorney general were split from it from February 14, 2006 to March 15, 2012. [1]
The Public Prosecution Service of Canada was established in 2006 as an agency independent of the Department of Justice Canada, in order to remedy problems associated with the former Federal Prosecution Service being located within the Department.
The Committee looks over and summarizes the administrative and management designs of Department of Justice and its subsidiary agencies Canadian Human Rights Commission, Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs of Canada, Supreme Court of Canada, Courts Administration Service, Administrative Tribunals Support Service of Canada, and Public Prosecution Service of Canada.
The Ministry of Justice was created by the Department of Justice Act, which came into effect on June 4, 1965, making Quebec the first Canadian province to have a department of justice. The first Minister appointed under the new Act was Claude Wagner. [1] Prior to 1965, the senior justice official in the province was the Attorney General.