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The headquarters of the Department of Justice is located in Ottawa at St. Andrew's Tower (284 Wellington St, Ottawa, ON K1A 0H8), a modern low rise office tower built in 1987. The 53rd and current Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada is Arif Virani .
The Ottawa Courthouse (French: Palais de justice d'Ottawa) is a courthouse in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is the main provincial court for the Ottawa area, and as such handles most of the region's legal affairs. The building is home to the civil, small claims, family, criminal, and district branches of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
The Justice Building designed by Thomas W. Fuller in Ottawa is so-called because it was previously home to the Department of Justice. Originally called Block D, it was built from 1935 to 1938 for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). It was renovated in 1998–2001 and now houses some of the offices of Members of Parliament.
The court was created on July 2, 2003, by the Courts Administration Service Act [1] when it and the Federal Court of Appeal were split from their predecessor, the Federal Court of Canada (which had been created June 1, 1971, through the enactment of the Federal Court Act, subsequently renamed the Federal Courts Act). [2]
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 West Memorial Building was intended to be renovated from 2019-2023 to restore it to a usable condition, and from 2023-2028 the Supreme Court of Canada, Federal Court of Appeal, and the Federal Court would occupy the premises while their building undergoes renovations. [3]
The committee is entirely comprised of Ottawa Impact members (Moss, Rhodea, Miedema, Roger Belknap and Gretchen Cosby), and quickly voted 5-0 to select W Talent, the only firm proposed, after it ...
Members of the association had previously contributed to the Archambault Commission, another justice-reform body created in 1936, with some of those recommendations also being reflected in subsequent legislation. The association played a leading role in the creation of the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa in 1967. [3]