Complaint form

If you believe the conduct of a judge, judicial justice, judicial case manager or justice of the peace was inappropriate, first read the information on the Complaints page before filling out the form below.

Complaints

The Chief Judge has no power to change the outcome of a ruling or decision, order a new trial or overturn a decision. For any of these remedies you may need to file an appeal or apply for judicial review, not make a complaint.

The Office of the Chief Judge does not have that information. In B.C., records of court proceedings are maintained by the Court Services Branch of the B.C. Ministry of the Attorney General.

For information about a particular court matter, check Court Services Online or contact the Court Registry where the matter was heard. For information about access to court records please see the Access to Court Records policy.

This form can only be used for complaints about judges and justices of the Provincial Court of British Columbia. For complaints relating to the BC Supreme Court and Court of Appeal, visit their websites or that of the Canadian Judicial Council.

Sorry, you cannot submit this Complaint

The Chief Judge only has the power to deal with complaints that:

involve a judge or justice of the BC Provincial Court
are not requests to change a decision of a judge or justice
are not requests for information
To complain about a judge of another BC court see the Canadian Judicial Council.

If you want to change the decision of a Provincial Court judge or justice see Appeals.

If you want information see Answers to Common Questions.

If you hit submit you will see a message stating “Your submission has been received” please note that is a limitation of our system, your complaint will not be sent to the Provincial Court, nor will you receive a response.

Now, use this form to send us your complaint. Please fill in all the boxes to make sure you are providing all the necessary information.

IMPORTANT!

  • You will not be able to save, print or return to this form. You will not receive a copy of the completed form.
  • Once you click the Submit button, you will not be able to edit any of your responses. You may want to type the description of your complaint on a separate page and copy and paste it into this form when you are ready to submit it.
  • You can use your Tab key to move from one box to the box below

If more than one judge or justice is involved, please type one name here and include the other names in the Description of Complaint section. If name is unknown, the complaint can still be submitted. You can find information about Provincial Court Judges and Justices here.

If the conduct happened on more than one date, enter the first date here and include additional dates in your Description of complaint.

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Allowed types: jpg, jpeg, bmp, txt, rtf, pdf, doc, docx, .msg.
If you are not submitting a document, select Not Applicable.

Once you click the Submit button, you will not be able to edit responses in any of the fields.

If you receive an error message after clicking the Submit button, you may wish to try one of the following:

  • Compose and save your complaint as one file on your local device (for example, as a Microsoft Word document or PDF) and upload it to the Optional – add document section of the form. You will need to click the Choose File button, select the file, and then click the Upload button for your file to be received with your complaint; or
  • Send your complaint by mail to the address or fax to the number on our Complaints page.
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