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Originally Posted by malcolmk14
Just an aside - can anyone go to any trial and just sit in and watch? How would one go about this? Is there a schedule posted somewhere?
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Court proceedings are generally open to the public. There are a few exceptions (like recently when the public was barred from the preliminary inquiry for Dustin Paxton) and sometimes there are publication bans (where what was said in the courtroom is, theoretically, not supposed to be published).
There are no schedules for Alberta court proceedings, save for the lists that are available at the court house itself. You can tell from the way the cases are listed whether the matter is a civil case or a criminal case. There's usually little more information over and above the names of the parties. You might be able to find out what kind of charges the person faces or the type of application being made in civil chambers but there's no good way to figure out when something juicy or interesting is going to happen.