Please note:

The Compendium of Law and Judges has been removed from this website.  The Compendium was produced and posted on this website in 1999 and was intended to provide a very general description of the law and the judiciary in British Columbia, concentrating on criminal law.  Since 1999, several other reliable sources of information covering the same topics as the Compendium have become available to the public on the internet. The accuracy of the information contained in the Compendium is no longer current.

If you are interested in information about Canada’s justice system, please go to: http://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/dept/pub/just/index.html

If you are interested in information about Canada’s court system, please go to:

http://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/dept/pub/trib/index.html

If you are interested in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, please go to:

http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/pdp-hrp/canada/guide/index_e.cfm or

http://www.canlii.org/eliisa/highlight.do?text=Charter+Digest&language=en&searchTitle=Search+all+CanLII+Databases&path=/en/ca/charter_digest/index.html

If you are interested in the appointment of judges to the superior courts, please go to:

http://www.fja.gc.ca/fja-cmf/index-eng.html

If you are interested generally in the law in Canada, please link to the B.C. Courthouse library society for further information:

http://www.bccls.bc.ca/cms/index.cfm?group_id=1000