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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 ...
Aulay MacAulay Morrison (June 15, 1863 – February 27, 1942) was a Canadian lawyer, judge and Liberal politician who represented New Westminster in the House of Commons of Canada from 1896 to 1904. [1]
Sir Henry Pering Pellew Crease (20 August 1823 – 27 November 1905) was a British-Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, influential in the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia. He was the first Attorney General of the united Colony of British Columbia, and sat on the Supreme Court of that province for 26 years.
Five years later, he was made a justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia. In that capacity, he served in the Cariboo , Victoria, and finally in 1883 New Westminster before retiring in 1897, at the age of 70.
Slumach [a] (c. 1816 – January 16, 1891) was an elderly Katzie First Nations man hanged for murder in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, in 1891.His unmarked grave is in St. Peter's Cemetery in Sapperton. [1]
He was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Colonies from 1870 to 1871 and then served as the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the new Province of British Columbia from 1871 until his death on June 11, 1894. In the years after his death, Begbie came to be known as the Hanging Judge. [2]
Leggatt was born November 9, 1931 in New Westminster, British Columbia. [1] He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of British Columbia and a law degree in 1954. [2] He began practising law in 1956 and law in Port Coquitlam and Vancouver, a practise he continued for 16 years. [1] [2]
The nearest Supreme Court of British Columbia venue is the New Westminster Law Courts. Provincial Court of British Columbia cases were formerly handled through the Coquitlam Provincial Court, but this was closed in 1996 and moved to the new Port Coquitlam Provincial Court. [104] [105]