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Court of Appeal for Ontario

The Court of Appeal for Ontario (frequently mistakenly referred to as the Ontario Court of Appeal) (ONCA is the abbreviation for its neutral citation) is the appellate court for the province of Ontario, Canada. The seat of the court is Osgoode Hall in downtown Toronto (also the seat of the Law Society of Ontario and the Divisional Court of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice).

Description

The Court is composed of 22 judicial seats, in addition to 10 justices who currently sit supernumerary.[1] They hear over 1,500 appeals each year, on issues of private law, constitutional law, criminal law, administrative law and other matters. The Supreme Court of Canada hears appeals from less than 3% of the decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, therefore in a practical sense, the Court of Appeal is the last avenue of appeal for most litigants in Ontario.[2]

Among the Court of Appeal's most notable decisions was the 2003 ruling in Halpern v Canada (AG) that found defining marriage as between one man and one woman to violate Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, legalizing same-sex marriage in Ontario and making Canada the first jurisdiction in the world where same-sex marriage was legalized by a court ruling. Among many judges from the Court who have been elevated to the Supreme Court of Canada are Justices Rosalie Abella, Louise Arbour, Peter Cory, Louise Charron, Andromache Karakatsanis, Bora Laskin, Michael Moldaver, and Mahmud Jamal, as well as Bertha Wilson, who was the first female justice on both the Court of Appeal for Ontario (1975) and the Supreme Court of Canada (1982).

The Court of Appeal derives its jurisdiction from Ontario's Courts of Justice Act.

Current judges

A courtroom at Osgoode Hall. Over the dais are the Royal Arms of the United Kingdom, which until 1931 were the Royal Arms for general purposes throughout the British Empire. The Statute of Westminster 1931 effectively elevated the Royal Arms of Canada to the position of the King's Royal Arms for general purposes across Canada, which is why the Royal Arms of Canada are now used by the court to represent the Canadian Crown.

Supernumerary Justices

Chief Justices of Ontario

Past judges

Chief Justices of Upper Canada (1792–1841)/Province of Canada (1841–1867)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b Of the Court of Queen's Bench

References

  1. ^ Canada, Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs (11 March 2024). "Federal Judicial Appointments - Number of Federally Appointed Judges in Canada". www.fja.gc.ca.
  2. ^ "Court of Appeal for Ontario". Ontariocourts.on.ca. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
  3. ^ "Ontario Judicial Appointments Announced". 2012-06-22. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
  4. ^ "Government of Canada announces judicial appointments in the province of Ontario". 2017-07-18.
  5. ^ "Ontario Judicial Appointments Announced". 2020-04-06.
  6. ^ a b "ONTARIO JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED". Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  7. ^ "ONTARIO JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED". Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  8. ^ Canada, Employment and Social Development (2015-06-26). "Ontario Judicial Appointments Announced - Canada.ca". www.canada.ca.
  9. ^ Canada, Department of Justice (2017-04-07). "Government of Canada announces judicial appointments in the province of Ontario - Canada.ca". www.canada.ca.
  10. ^ "Ontario Judicial Appointments Announced". 2015-05-05.
  11. ^ "Government of Canada announces judicial appointments in the province of Ontario". 2016-10-20. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
  12. ^ "Ontario Judicial Appointments Announced". 9 January 2012. Archived from the original on 9 January 2012.
  13. ^ "Ontario Judicial Appointments Announced". 2014-12-16.
  14. ^ "ONTARIO JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED". 2012-10-22.
  15. ^ "OTTAWA, December 14, 2012 - Ontario Judicial Appointment Announced". 13 May 2013. Archived from the original on 13 May 2013.
  16. ^ "Government of Canada announces judicial appointment in the province of Ontario". www.newswire.ca.
  17. ^ "Ontario Judicial Appointment Announced". 28 March 2010. Archived from the original on 28 March 2010.
  18. ^ "Appointment of Chief Justice of Ontario announced". Archived from the original on 2010-03-18.
  19. ^ a b c "Press Releases". Archived from the original on 2003-11-11.

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