The numbers in Tuesday’s post showed all the time spent in the court in each seat, totalled up for the month, averaged, then divided by seven to give an estimate of full-days the courts in the province actually sit.Judges do other work besi…
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: How many days does a Provincial Court sit? #nlpoli
If you listen to some people, Provincial Courts in the province are seriously overloaded such that with the loss of a couple of court houses – not judges, but buildings – we could see cases running upwards of 49 months or more and therefore causi…
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The provincial justice ministry had to increase spending to put a new judge in the Provincial Court in Clarenville even though the caseload in the court didn’t justify the decision, government documents reveal. Director of Public Prosecutions Donovan Molloy e-mailed then-deputy justice minister Paul Noble on September 6, 2014 about
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How hard can it be to figure out what Provincial Court Judges should get paid to do their work dispensing justice all around the province? Apparently, it can be quite difficult. There’s a teeny amendment bill in the House that sets a new date for a report from a commission
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The Crown Prosecution Service lost an application last week to overturn a decision by a Provincial Court judge. That’s not the newsworthy thing. The Crown wins applications and loses them all the time. What’s important about this is the back-story. The Telegram covered the decision itself, although you can read
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: English v. Pike: Game on! #nlpoli
Supreme Court Trial Division, Court Room 7, Duckworth Street. 10:00 AM. Be there or be squarer than you’d normally be as a lawyer or person interested in lawyer stuff. William J. English vs Mark D. Pike et al. Doesn’t look like much on the docket but this could be one
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The names of two lawyers who might appear in an upcoming news release: James Walsh Lori Marshall -srbp-
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