TRIAL
DIVISION > History of the
Court - Gander
The
Town of Gander was created in the late 1930’s and 1940’s as a
result of the military development of what is now Gander
Airport. Prior to 1977, there was no resident superior court
judge in Gander. In 1977, the District Court was established at
Gander with a full time resident judge. It sat for a short
period of time in what was then known as the Magistrate’s Court
on Elizabeth Drive. Later that same year that Court moved to
premises in the Elizabeth Drive Shopping Centre above the Bank
of Nova Scotia on Elizabeth Drive, where it sat until 1986. In
1986, the District Court merged into the Supreme Court.
Commencing in 1982, the Supreme Court circuited to Gander to
conduct jury trials and divorces. Up until 1993 the Supreme
Court continued to sit in the same location as the District
Court had.
In August of 1993, a new Law Courts Building opened on Airport
Boulevard which houses both the Supreme and Provincial Courts.
Resident Judges who served serving at Gander were The Honourable
Kevin Barry and The Honourable Gordon Easton. Mr. Justice Wayne
Dymond is the present resident Judge.
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