Canada's Trial Courts : : Two Tiers or One? / / Peter H. Russell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Russell, Peter H.,
• MitwirkendeR: Baar, Carl,; Borrows, John,; Doob, Anthony N.,; Friedland, Martin L.,; Hancock, David,; Healy, Patrick,; Kelso, J. Clark,; Louis, Huguette St.,; Russell, Peter H.,; Sanders, Nora,; Scott, Ian,; Seniuk, Gerald T.G.,; Tyson, Marian,; Webster, Cheryl Marie,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

One of the most important but least examined aspects of Canadian court systems is the dual structure of civil and criminal trial courts. Canada?s Trial Courts examines the co-existence, in every province, of superior courts (presided over by federally-appointed judges) and ?lower? courts (staffed by...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: How We Got Here
• Part One: Emergence of the Issue
• 1. The Provincial Court and the Criminal Law
• 2. Trial Court Reorganization in Canada: Alternative Futures
• 3. Superior Courts in the Twenty-first Century: A Historical Anachronism?
• 4. Constitutional Limitations upon the Allocation of Trial Jurisdiction to the Superior and Provincial Court in Criminal Matters
• Part Two: Contemporary Projects of Trial Court Reform
• 5. Reform of the Trial Courts in Quebec
• 6. Trial Court Restructuring: A Court Administrator's Perspective
• 7. Trial Court Unification in Nunavut
• 8. Reforming Alberta's Trial Courts
• Part Three: Competing Visions
• 9. The House of Justice: A Single Trial Court
• 10. Report of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice
• Part Four: Comparative Perspectives
• 11. Organizational Change in California's Court System: Unification of Trial Courts
• 12. Trial Court Integration in England
• Conclusion: The Road Ahead
• Contributors