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Fred Harinder Singh Sandhu was appointed to the Provincial Court of Manitoba on May 1, 2003.
Judge Sandhu graduated from the University of Manitoba's Faculty of Law in 1979. After his call to the bar, he worked with Legal Aid Manitoba, focusing on criminal law. Judge Sandhu was a certified youth soccer coach and a past member of the board of the Dauphin Friendship Centre.
The call to the bar is a legal term of art in most common law jurisdictions where persons must be qualified to be allowed to argue in court on behalf of another party and are then said to have been "called to the bar" or to have received "call to the bar." "The bar" is now used as a collective noun for barristers, but literally referred to the wooden barrier in old courtrooms, which separated the often crowded public area at the rear from the space near the judges reserved for those having business with the Court. Barristers would sit or stand immediately behind it, facing the judge, and could use it as a table for their briefs.
Robert George Brian Dickson, commonly known as Brian Dickson, was a Canadian lawyer, military officer and judge. He was appointed a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada on March 26, 1973, and subsequently appointed the 15th Chief Justice of Canada on April 18, 1984. He retired on June 30, 1990.
Hugh Amos Robson was a politician and judge in Manitoba. He briefly served as leader of the Manitoba Liberal Party in the 1920s.
Victor Toews is a Canadian-Paraguayan politician and jurist. Toews is a judge of the Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba. He represented Provencher in the House of Commons of Canada from 2000 until his resignation on July 9, 2013, and served in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, most recently as Minister of Public Safety. He previously served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1995 to 1999, and was a senior cabinet minister in the government of Gary Filmon. Prior to his appointment to the judiciary, Toews was a member of the Conservative Party of Canada.
The court system of Canada forms the judicial branch of government, formally known as "The Queen on the Bench", which interprets the law and is made up of many courts differing in levels of legal superiority and separated by jurisdiction. Some of the courts are federal in nature, while others are provincial or territorial.
The Manitoba Court of Appeal is the court of appeal in, and the highest court of, the Canadian province of Manitoba. It hears criminal, civil, and family law cases, as well as appeals from various administrative boards and tribunals.
Marshall Rothstein is a former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
The Territorial Court of Yukon is the lower trial court in the court system of the Canadian territory of Yukon. The court sits permanently in Whitehorse but also provides services in 14 other communities including Dawson City and Watson Lake.
The Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba —or the Court of King’s Bench of Manitoba, depending on the monarch—is the superior court of the Canadian province of Manitoba.
The Provincial Court of Manitoba is the lower trial court of the Province of Manitoba. It has mainly a criminal jurisdiction, as well as limited concurrent jurisdiction with the Court of Queen’s Bench in matters of family law that originate outside of Winnipeg.
Glenn D. Joyal was appointed Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba on February 4, 2011. He replaced Marc M. Monnin, upon his elevation to the Court of Appeal of Manitoba.
The Honourable Lori T. Spivak, a puisne Judge of Her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench for Manitoba, was appointed a Judge of Appeal of the Court of Appeal for Manitoba. She replaces Justice H.C. Beard (Winnipeg), who elected to become a supernumerary judge effective January 1, 2019.
A. Lori Douglas was the Associate Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba. She currently lectures and practices family law part-time.
Marianne Rivoalen was appointed a judge of the Family Division of the Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba on February 2, 2005. On May 22, 2015, Rivaolen took over as Associate Chief Justice of the Family Division of the Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba. She is presently a Justice of the Federal Court of Appeal.
John M. Scurfield,, styled The Honourable Mr. Justice was a Canadian judge.
Calvin Murray Sinclair or Mizanay (Mizhana) Gheezhik, is a former member of the Canadian Senate and First Nations lawyer who served as chairman of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 2009 to 2015. He previously served as a judge in Manitoba from 1988 to 2009, being the first Indigenous judge appointed in the province. Sinclair was appointed to the Senate of Canada on April 2, 2016. In November 2020, he announced his retirement from the Senate effective January 31, 2021.
The Robson Hall Faculty of Law is the law school of the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is located on the Fort Garry campus.
Manitoba First, formerly the Manitoba Party, is a provincial political party in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was registered by Elections Manitoba on March 24, 2016. It ran 16 candidates in the 2016 general election, garnering 4,887 votes, or 1.12 per cent of the total vote.
Mintu Sandhu is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba in the 2019 Manitoba general election. He represents the electoral district of The Maples as a member of the New Democratic Party of Manitoba.
Udaariyaan is an Indian television drama series that airs on Colors TV. Produced by Sargun Mehta and Ravi Dubey, it premiered on 15 March 2021. It stars Ankit Gupta, Isha Malviya and Priyanka Choudhary.
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