TRIAL
DIVISION > History of the
Court - Happy Valley / Goose Bay
Prior to 1984, there was no resident superior court justice
in Labrador. Superior Court matters were handled either by on
circuit, by the District Court Judge resident in Grand
Falls-Windsor, or by a Supreme Court Judge on circuit from St.
John’s, with the Court sitting at various sites in the Towns of
Happy Valley-Goose Bay and Wabush/Labrador City
In 1984, the first resident Superior Court presence was created
in Labrador with the establishment of a new District Court in
what is now Happy Valley-Goose Bay.
Commencing in 1984, the District Court and the Supreme Court on
circuit, sat in premises at 71 Markland Road, Happy Valley-Goose
Bay. In 1986, the District Court merged into the Supreme Court.
Both Courts up until the time of their merger, and the Supreme
Court after 1986, have continued to regularly circuit to Wabush/Labrador
City where they sat (and the Supreme Court still sits) in the
Provincial Building on Whiteway Drive, Wabush, in premises also
occupied by the Provincial Court of Newfoundland and Labrador.
In 2004, the Supreme Court moved to newly constructed premises
at 214 Hamilton River Road.
Judges who have served at the Judicial Centre of Happy
Valley-Goose Bay have been: Mr. Justice Seamus O’Regan, Mr.
Justice David Orsborn, Mr. Justice Robert Hall, and Mr. Justice
Robert Fowler. Mr. Justice William Goodridge is the present resident Judge.
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