该小组履行以下部分或全部职责：

• 主持法庭，解释和执行程序规则，并就证据的可采性作出裁决
• 指导陪审团适用于案件的法律
• 在非陪审团审判中权衡和考虑证据，并决定被告或被告的法律有罪或无罪或责任程度
• 对在刑事案件中被定罪的人作出判决，并在民事案件中确定损害赔偿或其他适当的补救措施
• 准予离婚并在配偶之间分配资产
• 确定竞争父母和其他监护人之间的子女监护权
• 执行法院的访问或支持命令
• 监督其他法官和法庭官员。

• 通常需要作为律师或法学教授的丰富经验并连续成为律师协会的成员。
• 必须是省或地区法律协会或律师协会的信誉良好的会员。
• 法官由联邦或省内阁任命。
• 那些被任命为法院更高级职位的人，例如首席大法官，通常具有在该法院担任法官的经验。

• 法官可能专注于特定的法律领域，例如民法、刑法或家庭法。

• 行政法庭法官 - 政府服务（40010 政府管理人员 - 健康和社会政策制定和项目管理）
• 公民法官；治安法官（在42200 律师助理和相关职业中）

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

• Preside over courts of law, interpret and enforce rules of procedure and make rulings regarding the admissibility of evidence
• Instruct the jury on laws that are applicable to the case
• Weigh and consider evidence in non-jury trials and decide legal guilt or innocence or degree of liability of the accused or defendant
• Pass sentence on persons convicted in criminal cases and determine damages or other appropriate remedy in civil cases
• Grant divorces and divide assets between spouses
• Determine custody of children between contesting parents and other guardians
• Enforce court orders for access or support
• Supervise other judges and court officers.

• Extensive experience as a lawyer or as a professor of law with continuous membership in the bar association is usually required.
• Membership in good standing with a provincial or territorial law society or bar association is required.
• Judges are appointed by federal or provincial cabinets.
• Those appointed to more senior positions in a court, such as chief justice, usually have experience as judges in that court.

• Judges may specialize in particular areas of law such as civil, criminal or family law.

• Administrative tribunal judge - government services (in 40010 Government managers - health and social policy development and program administration)
• Citizenship judge; justice of the peace (in 42200 Paralegals and related occupations)