Bedford Lawyers for Injury and Criminal Cases

Bedford has been part of Halifax Regional Municipality since 1996, which is why its courts, its police service and its hospitals are all somewhere else. Bedford lawyers from Mike Murphy Law Group take injury claims and criminal charges from Bedford and Hammonds Plains at the firm’s Halifax office, twenty minutes down the Bedford Highway, and run them by phone, video and email.

Bedford’s Court Dates Are Downtown

Bedford has no courthouse. Matters go to the Halifax courts: the Provincial Court in Halifax calls most charges from the area, and the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia hears civil trials at the Law Courts on Upper Water Street. The charge sheet or the release papers name the courtroom, and the firm confirms it before the first date.

Injury Claims From Bedford Households

There is no hospital in Bedford itself, so records typically come from the Cobequid Community Health Centre in neighbouring Sackville or the Halifax Infirmary downtown, and the firm collects both with your consent. The Limitation of Actions Act allows two years for most claims. A trip and fall at a Bedford business is an Occupiers’ Liability Act claim, and early notice to the occupier is what preserves the camera footage, which is usually overwritten within a month. The Bedford Highway and the basin interchanges produce a steady run of collision claims, and the police report is ordered on each before the insurer starts calling.

Criminal Charges Bedford Lawyers Answer in Halifax Courts

Halifax Regional Police cover Bedford. Release conditions are dealt with in the first week, because a condition that keeps you out of your own neighbourhood or off the Bedford Highway commute does more damage than waiting for trial. A professional facing a first charge usually worries about a licensing body as much as the court, and the defence plan accounts for both. The Nova Scotia sexual assault and drug charges pages explain how those prosecutions work in this province.

There Is No Bedford Office, and the File Does Not Need One

The file is run from the Halifax office, twenty minutes down the Bedford Highway, and counsel attends the Halifax courts for the dates that need a lawyer there. Records requests and case meetings are handled by phone and email. Contact the firm or call.