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The Provincial Court of BC will hold its second Twitter Town Hall on April 6, 2017 as part of BC’s Law Week 2017!
From 11:00 am to 1:00 pm Chief Judge Thomas Crabtree will answer questions tweeted to #AskChiefJudge. Find out why the Court is repeating this event and what Chief Judge Crabtree hopes to achieve.
Changes to BC law announced today will make important changes to the work the Provincial Court does under the Small Claims Act. Starting June 1, 2017, with just a few exceptions civil claims of up to $5000 will no longer be dealt with in the Provincial Court’s “Small Claims Court” – instead, they will be resolved in BC’s new online Civil Resolution Tribunal.
Victoria’s Integrated Court will be seven years old on March 16, 2017. Its latest annual report frankly describes its challenges and successes, and tells the story of one man’s rehabilitation in his own words.
Visitors to the area at Highway 10 and 144th Street in Surrey will have noticed major construction underway beside the courthouse since September 2016, and wondered what’s being built. Well, the project involves renovation of the courthouse built in 1991 and a three-storey addition to it.
It may seem that courts are slow to change – after all, judges wearing robes still sit at big desks at the front of our courtrooms and apply legal principles, some of which date back hundreds of years. But retired judges in BC have seen huge changes in the Provincial Court and its work over the last 45 years.