The associate chief justice position for Newfoundland and Labrador will assist the current chief justice to provide long-term, efficient and effective administration to the court. Part of the decision to ask for one was the fact that Newfoundland and Labrador does have such vast geography and the way that they have organized their court, which is within the jurisdiction of the province, the province gets to decide how to structure its courts and how to administer in them. They have divided their trial division into a family and a general division and along seven judicial centres. That was simply one consideration that was taken into account as part of the request for judicial resources from that court.
