T-16 - Courts of Justice Act

Section 256 Disposition versions

1988-08-31

256. The functions of the council are:

(a)  to organize, in accordance with Chapter II of this Part, refresher programs for judges;

(b)  to adopt, in accordance with Chapter III of this Part, a judicial code of ethics;

(c)  to receive and examine any complaint lodged against a judge to whom Chapter III of this Part applies;

(d)  to promote the efficiency and uniformization of procedure before the courts;

(e)  to receive suggestions, recommendations and requests made to it regarding the administration of justice, to study them and to make the appropriate recommendations to the Minister of Justice;

(f)  to cooperate, in accordance with the law, with any body pursuing similar purposes outside Québec, and

(g)  to hear and decide appeals under section 112.

1978, c. 19, s. 33; 1988, c. 21, s. 56.

1978-07-19

256. The functions of the council are:

(a)  to organize, in accordance with Chapter II of this Part, refresher programmes for judges;

(b)  to adopt, in accordance with Chapter III of this Part, a judicial code of ethics;

(c)  to receive and examine any complaint lodged against a judge to whom Chapter III of this Part applies;

(d)  to promote the efficiency and uniformization of procedure before the courts;

(e)  to receive suggestions, recommendations and requests made to it regarding the administration of justice, to study them and to make the appropriate recommendations to the Minister of Justice, and

(f)  to cooperate, in accordance with the law, with any body pursuing similar purposes outside Québec.

1978, c. 19, s. 33.