Talk:Court system of Canada

Removed "Etiquette" section

I removed the "Etiquette" section. It seemed ridiculous, a bunch of silly pithy jabs at U.S. culture, starting with the introductory statement

A good Canadian law student or lawyer should be wary of watching American courtroom dramas as he or she may risk embarrassing him or herself when appearing and advocating in a real Canadian court. Canadian courtroom etiquette far more resembles that of England than that of the United States.

Hurr Hurr Hurr, U.S. sux. It's a good idea, just poorly executed. And plus the formatting on that section is god-awful, looks like it was copied and pasted from somewhere. - Kade 20:49, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Page move (2005)

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(from WP:RM)

Courts of Canada → Canadian court system

I merged the Courts of Canada article with the original Canadian court system as they were pretty much the exact same thing. The better of the two was Courts of Canada so I kept that one, however the Category name is "Canadian court system" so it would be more appropriate to name the article according to that title -- PullUpYourSocks 02:42, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

There was an identical article called Canadian court system that I merged with this one, but not much material from the other one survived. Moreover, I renamed this one to the more appropriate title of "Court system of Canada" see Wikipedia:Requested_moves#Courts_of_Canada_.26rarr.3B_Canadian_court_system for comments. I trust no one has any strong feelings against it. - PullUpYourSocks 19:52, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Comments on page move

• Support. This seems sensible. Jonathunder 02:47, 2005 Jan 13 (UTC)
• Oppose - this move disagrees with the general direction given at Wikipedia:WikiProject Countries to use "Entity of Country". -- Netoholic @ 03:01, 2005 Jan 13 (UTC)
• Oppose: but not because of the guidelines (that say to not enforce them on those actively editting an article) that Netholic posted. Randomly picking an external link (http://www.courts.gov.bc.ca/) the title is "Courts of British Columbia". And other random court links I chose. It's clear the sites use "Court of" so I guess the category needs to be changed to match. Cburnett 04:05, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support. Articles are "X of Y" where it makes sense; such is not the case here. ADH (t&m) 04:36, Jan 13, 2005 (UTC)
• Oppose. Pointless move. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 23:01, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support either of the two suggested names. -Sean Curtin 05:51, Jan 15, 2005 (UTC)
• Support the article is about the court system not just the courts. - SimonP 04:12, Jan 13, 2005 (UTC)
  • Then perhaps Court system of Canada? -- Netoholic @ 04:52, 2005 Jan 13 (UTC)
    • Looks like PullUpYUourSocks liked this suggestion and moved the article. It seems that the only thing needed would be to merge the history of Canadian court system with Court system of Canada. -- Netoholic @ 06:35, 2005 Jan 14 (UTC)
    • Once the compressed block issue is done, this can be done:
      1. Delete Court system of Canada
      2. Move Canadian court system to Court system of Canada
      3. Restore Court system of Canada
      4. Edit historical version to be current, if needed.
    • - UtherSRG 02:00, Jan 20, 2005 (UTC)

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Quebec judges

Three judges are required by the Supreme Court Act to come from Quebec.

See the text here:

6. At least three of the judges shall be appointed from among the judges of the Court of Appeal or of the Superior Court of the Province of Quebec or from among the advocates of that Province.

Merge proposal

Provincial and territorial courts in Canada is a stub and the information is duplicated here. It appears to meet criteria to be merged here but I don't know if this would be considered controversial. Someone more experienced care to comment? ShinyObjectsOnly (talk) 16:37, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

I didn't even know that article existed! Yes, I think a merger would be a good thing. I'm not sure how to request one; will poke around. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 16:18, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Right, I've checked the page on merging and we don't need to go to an administrator, just start by putting merge proposals on the two pages. I'll do that. There's considerable overlap between the two, so the merge might amount to deleting most of the stuff on the other page, but there's a few things there that could be carried over, like the appeals and the Ontario Provincial Offences Court. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 17:27, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Excellent, thank you! ShinyObjectsOnly (talk) 17:37, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

I've put a notice on the Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board, alerting that a merge proposal has been made. (That's not Wikipedia:Canvassing, as long as it's just a neutral announcement.) Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 17:45, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

• Survey

• Merge: The Provincial and Territorial Courts in Canada page is a stub, and is largely duplicative of what is in this page. Putting info on all the courts into this one article is better organization. The parts of the other page that are not duplicative can be easily included here. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 17:35, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
• Merge: Mostly duplicated info. GoodDay (talk) 17:50, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Merge: The context of the distinctions between superior courts and provincial courts is important to understanding provincial courts as a whole. That is most easily done in this article. More detailed information about any given provincial court would remain on that court's page. This would match the approach taken for all other levels of court. ShinyObjectsOnly (talk) 17:51, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

• Merge. I agree with the above - merging into a single article Court system of Canada makes sense, due to duplicated information between the two. PKT(alk) 19:29, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Comment: there seems general support for the proposal, so I went to the other article to see what could be moved here. I think that the first two paragraphs already are covered by this article, and the list of provincial courts is also here. The only thing that wasn't included was the comment about the Ontario Provincial Offences Court, so I've moved it here, and deleted the rest of the other article. Will try to turn it into a redirect. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 03:17, 30 March 2024 (UTC)