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The Provincial Court of Nova Scotia is the court of criminal jurisdiction for the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. There are twenty-three Justices and one Chief Justice on the bench, who sit in one of 33 locations over the province.
The Court of Appeal for Nova Scotia (Nova Scotia Court of Appeal or NSCA) is the highest appeal court in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. There are currently 8 judicial seats including one assigned to the Chief Justice of Nova Scotia. [1] At any given time there may be one or more additional justices who sit as supernumerary justices. [1 ...
This is a comprehensive list of cases originating in Canada decided by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, in Britain.. From 1867 to 1949, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was the highest court of appeal for Canada (and, separately, for Newfoundland, which did not join Canada as a province until 1949).
The Court observed that the fines were serious penal considerations, a typical feature of criminal law. The provincial regulations were also ruled to be very similar to the federal abortion law struck down in 1988 (although Nova Scotia did not resurrect the Therapeutic Abortion Committees of the federal law).
Full case name: The Nova Scotia Board of Censors and The Attorney General in and for the Province of Nova Scotia v Gerard McNeil: Citations [1978] 2 S.C.R. 662: Ruling: Held in favour of board. Holding; Laws regarding local moral standards are in the provincial jurisdiction. Court membership; Chief Justice: Bora Laskin
Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Nova Scotia Supreme Court is a superior court in the province of Nova Scotia. The Supreme Court consists of 25 judicial seats including the position of Chief Justice and Associate Chief Justice. [1] At any given time there may be one or more additional justices who sit as supernumerary ...
This decision considers two separate cases. In the first one, Stephen Marshall (no relation to Donald Marshall) and 34 other Mi'kmaq were charged with cutting down timber on Nova Scotia Crown land without a permit. In the second case, Joshua Bernard, a Mi'kmaq man, was charged with possession of logs stolen from a rural New Brunswick saw mill ...
Upheld authority of Canadian Parliament to abolish appeals to the Privy Council in criminal cases. Attorney-General of Canada v. Attorney-General of Ontario (Labour Conventions) (Ontario, Canada) [1937] A.C. 326 Sifton v. Sifton [1938] A.C. 656 Certainty of conditions in a devise Vita Food Products Inc. v. Unus Shipping Co. Ltd. (Nova Scotia ...