The Ministry of Justice (french: Ministère de la Justice, link=no) is responsible for the administration of courts and prosecutors in
Quebec
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, Canada. The Minister is automatically the
Attorney General, and Registrar of Quebec.
The Ministry of Justice was created by the Department of Justice Act, which came into effect on June 4, 1965, making Quebec the first Canadian province to have a department of justice. The first Minister appointed under the new Act was
Claude Wagner.
Prior to 1965, the senior justice official in the province was the Attorney General. This role was created in 1867 replacing the role of
Attorney General of
Canada East and before 1841 the
Attorney General of
Lower Canada
The Province of Lower Canada (french: province du Bas-Canada) was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence (1791–1841). It covered the southern portion of the current Province of Quebec an ...
.
In 1975, a working paper, ''La Justice Contemporaine'', proposed a comprehensive vision of the justice system in Quebec, and recommended unification of the provincial trial courts The
Court of Quebec was not established until 1988, after the merging of Provincial Court, the Court of the Sessions of the Peace and the Youth Court.
The current minister is
Simon Jolin-Barrette
Simon Jolin-Barrette is a Canadian lawyer and politician in Quebec, Jolin-Barrette (born 1987) was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2014 Quebec election. He represents the riding of Borduas as a member of the Coalition Ave ...
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Members of Cabinet , Gouvernement du Québec
Government of Quebec, accessed 28 May 2021.
See also
* List of Ministers of Justice of Quebec
* Directeur des poursuites criminelles et pénales
References
External links
Justice Quebec
{{Canada topic, Attorney General of
Justice
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Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...
Government agencies established in 1965
1965 establishments in Quebec
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