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A county court was established in British Columbia in 1884; it served as an intermediate court between the provincial court and the British Columbia Supreme Court.In 1990, the County Court of British Columbia merged with the British Columbia Supreme Court and its judges became justices of the BC Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court of British Columbia is the superior trial court for the province of British Columbia, Canada. The Court hears civil and criminal law cases as well as appeals from the Provincial Court of British Columbia. There are 90 judicial positions on the Court in addition to supernumerary judges, making for a grand total of 108 judges. [1]
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The Provincial Court of British Columbia (BC Provincial Court) is a trial level court in British Columbia that hears cases in criminal, civil and family matters. The Provincial Court is a creation of statute , and as such its jurisdiction is limited to only those matters over which is permitted by statute.
British Columbia: March 30, 1989 – December 14, 2017: January 7, 2000 – December 14, 2017: 28 years, 259 days 17 years, 341 days Mulroney (as puisne justice); Chrétien (as chief justice) University of Alberta Faculty of Law: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia: 68 William Stevenson (1934–2021) Alberta: September 17 ...
Official portrait of Mary Southin on her appointment to the British Columbia Supreme Court. Mary Frances Southin (born 1931) is a retired Canadian judge. She was the first woman to become a Queen's Counsel in British Columbia, to be elected a Bencher of the Law Society of British Columbia, and to be a head of a law society in the Commonwealth.
Ian Bruce Josephson is a Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia.He gained national attention overseeing the trial of two persons accused of bombing Air India Flight 182, the largest mass-murder in Canadian history.
It ended on September 10, 2020 when presiding justice John J. Steeves, a judge on the Supreme Court of British Columbia, issued an 880-page ruling in favour of the defendants. Steeves found that the plaintiffs' complaints did not show violations of sections 7 and 15 of the Canadian Charter and that the amount of suffering the plaintiffs claimed ...