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The Court System for Family Matters

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Addressing the court
Masters deal with a wide variety of applications in Supreme Court Chambers. They deal mainly with interim applications and hear judicial cases conferences. Masters of the Supreme Court are addressed as "Your Honour."
Justices can also hear interim applications and judicial cases conferences, but are mostly assigned to hear trials and applications to change final orders. Justices are Until quite recently, justices were addressed as by the ancient-sounding terms "My Lord" or "My Lady," or, if you wantwanted, as "Your Lordship" or "Your Ladyship."As of the end of 2021, a justice of the BC Supreme Court is to be addressed as "Chief Justice", "Associate Chief Justice", "Justice", "Madam Justice", or "Mr. Justice" as the context requires. The old terms "My Lord", "My Lady", "Your Lordship", and "Your Ladyship" is to be avoided.
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