Antigonish Lawyers for Injury and Criminal Cases

Antigonish lawyers from Mike Murphy Law Group act for the town, the county and the St. Francis Xavier University population from the firm’s Halifax office, two hours east along the Trans-Canada. Injury claims and criminal charges are handled remotely until a court date requires attendance in town, and the firm attends.

Antigonish Hears Its Own Court Lists

The Provincial Court sits in Antigonish, and the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia holds sittings there, so charges and lawsuits from Antigonish County are dealt with locally rather than in Pictou or Halifax. That keeps witnesses, sureties and family close to the courtroom that matters. Highway 104 runs past the town and feeds both lists, collisions to the civil side and driving charges to the criminal.

Injury Claims From the Town and the County

St. Martha’s Regional Hospital in Antigonish is the record source for most local injuries, supplemented by your own doctor’s chart, with serious admissions transferred to Halifax and documented there as well. The Limitation of Actions Act sets the general two-year window for suing, and the firm fixes the true deadline at the start rather than near it. A fatal accident claim under the Fatal Injuries Act has its own rules about who may bring it, and that is one of the first questions the firm answers for a grieving family. A student injured here who leaves the province before the claim resolves does not have to return for it; the file runs by video from wherever they land.

Criminal Files Antigonish Lawyers Defend

A university town produces first-time charges, and how a first charge is handled has a lot to do with whether a record follows it. The RCMP polices Antigonish. The university runs its own conduct process alongside the prosecution, on its own timetable and a lower standard of proof, so what a student says in that process is treated as evidence and planned for before it is said. The Nova Scotia sexual assault and assault pages describe those defences in detail.

Two Hours Each Way, and the Firm Drives It

The file is run from the Halifax office and nothing in it requires you there. Counsel makes the two-hour drive for the dates on the Antigonish list, and everything between those dates happens by phone, video and email. Contact the firm or call.