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The Provincial Court of Newfoundland and Labrador is the lower trial court of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It hears cases relating to criminal law and family law . Judges of the Provincial Court are appointed by the provincial cabinet, on recommendation of the Attorney General.
The Court has the authority to hear appeals of specific matters not under jurisdiction of the province's appellate court. The Court is located in six regions of the province: Corner Brook (3 justices), Gander (1 justice), Grand Bank (1 justice), Grand Falls-Windsor (1 justice), Happy Valley-Goose Bay (1 justice), and St. John's (21 justices ...
From 1975 until 2018 the Court of Appeal was constituted as the appeal division of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador with judges appointed specifically to hear appeals from the General Division of the Supreme Court. Prior to 1975 both trial and appeals were carried out in the Supreme Court, where the individual judges routinely ...
The St. John's City Hall, on New Gower Street, has housed municipal offices and Council Chambers since being officially opened in 1970. [138] [175] St. John's served as the capital city of the Colony of Newfoundland and the Dominion of Newfoundland before Newfoundland became Canada's tenth province in 1949. [176]
The court heard that a GPS tracker on the police cruiser being driven by Snelgrove on December 21, 2014, placed him at the victim's residence and a DNA sample found on the woman's loveseat was a match to Snelgrove. [3] The Supreme Court of NL as seen from Duckworth Street, St. John's, NL
As of 2017, court records indicate at least 56 cases of child sexual abuse involving the New Brunswick dioceses are currently before the courts. [19] According to one CBC report: "Almost every month for a year, lawsuits have been filed against the Catholic Church in New Brunswick by alleged victims seeking compensation for sexual abuse by priests."
The St. John’s Court House is located on Water Street and Duckworth Street in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. Constructed in 1901–04, the building is a National Historic Site of Canada. [1] Sources differ with regard to its architect; it was designed either by William Tuff Whiteway [2] or by William H. Greene. [1]
The Supreme Court of NL is shown from Water Street, St. John's, NL In 1997, in response to the Hughes Inquiry, and facing dozens of civil lawsuits, the NL provincial government acknowledged its responsibility as a result of having sent children to the Mount Cashel Orphanage, and paid a settlement of $11.25 million to approximately 40 former ...