The right to trial by jury dates from Magna Carta in 1215 and 1792 in the Province of Upper Canada. Criminal and civil jury trials have recently been temporarily postponed in three regions of Ontario, ...

New Brunswick’s attorney general is proposing regulatory changes that will get rid of civil jury trials, except in a few types of actions. If the proposal becomes law, litigants will have to foot the ...

Windsor lawyer Greg Monforton has thrown his support behind an initiative to eliminate civil jury trials in Ontario courts, at least on an interim basis. “Right now, the best alternative is to, at the ...

Civil cases typically involve private disputes between two parties. Unlike criminal cases, there is no constitutional right to a jury in civil cases. Civil juries are typically used by at-fault ...

Ontario should follow Quebec’s lead and abolish civil jury trials. A jury trial in a civil case is not a constitutional right, as it is in criminal cases. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, civil jury ...

Since March of 2023, Donald Trump has been indicted by grand juries on six occasions in four criminal cases, was convicted by a jury once, took one mug shot, was ordered to pay millions in damages by ...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick’s Court of Queen’s Bench says it will have to adjourn some civil and family trials due to vacancies on the bench, an unprecedented number of jury trials and a large volume ...

The costs, revealed in an access to information request filed by The Canadian Press, show the Justice Department added about $300,000 to its bill between early 2016 and last June to fight a case the ...

Trump acknowledges inaccuracies in rambling, defiant civil case testimony. Judge at civil trial rules Trump Organization committed fraud. Trump verbal attacks lead to limited gag orders in 2 of his 4 ...

New rules in Alberta regarding some types of civil or family trials will be enacted in January. The streamlined trial process will take a summary-trial approach, with a few specific rules and ...

A judge has declined to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Concord Pacific over an alleged agreement to develop some of the former Expo lands in Vancouver. In 1989, Concord Pacific, one of the largest real ...