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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.
Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench for Saskatchewan; Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench of Alberta; Associate Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench of Alberta; Chief Justice of the Trial Division of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland; Senior Judge of the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories; Senior Judge of the Supreme ...
In Ontario and Quebec, this court is known as the Superior Court (Cour supérieure); in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and New Brunswick, as the Court of King's Bench (Cour du Banc du Roi); and in Newfoundland and Labrador, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories as the Supreme Court (Cour ...
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]
The court hears appeals from the Court of King's Bench of New Brunswick, Provincial Court of New Brunswick, and various tribunals. Cases tried by the court can be appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada, but in practice this happens only a few times a year.
Further, the superior courts of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and New Brunswick are called His Majesty's Court of King's Bench of [Province] (summarised as King's Bench), [81] and the law in British Columbia, [82] Newfoundland and Labrador, [83] and Saskatchewan allows for the lieutenant governor to appoint prominent lawyers as King's ...
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]
The Crown Attorney appealed the decision directly to the New Brunswick Court of Appeal (the normal path would have been through the Court of Queen's Bench of New Brunswick) on 27 May. [55] Karen Selick, one of three lawyers retained by Comeau at the instance of the National Post's deputy comments editor, termed the appeal "a farce". [54]