RESOURCES
Council’s Mandate
Part II of the Judges Act establishes the Canadian Judicial Council’s mandate.
Conduct of Judges and Lawyers
If a judge’s conduct does not meet our expected high standards and he or she is not suitable to be a member of the judiciary, both the provincial (and territorial) and federal governments have systems for reviewing complaints about the conduct of judges.
Superior Court Judges
The Canadian Judicial Council has authority over the work of more than 1,070 federally appointed judges. The procedure for making a complaint about a federally appointed judge is described in this website.
Provincial and Territorial Court Judges
Individual provincial and territorial judicial councils have responsibility for provincially appointed judges in provincial courts. As part of their mandates to improve the quality of judicial service in provincial courts, they review complaints about provincially appointed judges.
These links take you to the websites for provincial judicial councils in Canada.
Making a complaint about a lawyer
Complaints about lawyers should be made to the relevant provincial or territorial law society. A complete list of law societies is available on the Federation of Law Societies website.
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