A criminal law firm is warning that the extension of measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 in Alberta's courthouses will worsen a backlog that existed before the pandemic.

"By May 26... the Court of Queen's Bench will be operating at close to 100 per cent capacity in its various areas of criminal, civil, family and child protection judicial service."

Matthew Raymond is accused of killing civilians Donnie Robichaud and Bobbie Lee Wright, and Fredericton Police constables Robb Costello and Sara Burns, on Aug. 10, 2018.

Days after a man was acquitted in the hit-and-run death of Brady Francis, Indigenous leaders addressed what they say are "injustices that are happening our people."

Helen Naslund, 58, pleaded guilty in an Edmonton courtroom to manslaughter for the 2011 shooting of 49-year old Miles Naslund on a farm near Holden, Alta.

Some legal experts are warning that the COVID-19 pandemic will have lasting effects on the Canadian justice system.

The Court won't be making any new bookings for cases that aren't urgent or emergent between March 16 and March 27. 

The Nova Scotia Supreme Court says the decision is effective immediately and applies to all jury trials that have not yet commenced in court.

Three new judges appointed to Alberta Court of Queen's Bench are all from Edmonton.

A judge has granted a stay on an order that would have required the Alberta government to make an immediate decision on a proposed oilsands project near Fort McMurray.