Superior Court

Superior Court in accordance to the Interpretation Act

“Superior court” (French: «juridiction supérieure» ou «cour supérieure») means, in the wording of the Canada´s Interpretation Act, which provides rules for the interpretation of legislation, the following:

• in the Province of Prince Edward Island or Newfoundland, the Supreme Court,
• in the Province of Ontario, the Court of Appeal for Ontario and the Superior Court of Justice,
• in the Province of Quebec, the Court of Appeal and the Superior Court in and for the Province,
• in the Province of New Brunswick, Manitoba, Saskatchewan or Alberta, the Court of Appeal for the Province and the Court of Queen’s Bench for the Province,
• in the Provinces of Nova Scotia and British Columbia, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of the Province, and
• the Supreme Court of Yukon, the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories and the Nunavut Court of Justice, and includes the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal, the Federal Court and the Tax Court of Canada.

Law is our Passion

This entry about Superior Court has been published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC BY 3.0) licence, which permits unrestricted use and reproduction, provided the author or authors of the Superior Court entry and the Encyclopedia of Law are in each case credited as the source of the Superior Court entry. Please note this CC BY licence applies to some textual content of Superior Court, and that some images and other textual or non-textual elements may be covered by special copyright arrangements. For guidance on citing Superior Court (giving attribution as required by the CC BY licence), please see below our recommendation of "Cite this Entry".

• APA
• MLA
• MLA 7
• CHICAGO
• OSCOLA

Usage Metrics

133 Views

Google Scholar: Search for Superior Court Related Content

 

Schema Summary

This entry was last updated: January 27, 2014