From Sherwood Forest to Saskatchewan: The role of the sheriff in a redesigned judgment enforcement system

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Buckwold, Tamara M.

• The sheriff plays a central role in the judgment enforcement system of Saskatchewan and other provinces. The modem sheriff's office is the product of more than a thousand years of English and Canadian history and a century of unsystematic statutory tinkering with the enforcement writs. This article identifies the issues to be addressed in redesigning that office as the administrative core of a new system of judgment enforcement law, and considers alternative approaches to their resolution. By way of context, the author outlines the sheriff's present role in the enforcement of money judgments and surveys the history of the office.

• Date created

  2003

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Canadian Law

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3K06XF7S

• License

  © 2003 Tamara M. Buckwold et al. This version of this article is open access and can be downloaded and shared. The original author(s) and source must be cited.