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|Justice Joel E. Fichaud<ref>{{cite web |title=NOVA  SCOTIA JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCED |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040616225551/http://canada.justice.gc.ca:80/en/news/ja/2003/doc_31002.html |website=Dept of Justice |accessdate=8 August 2018}}</ref>
|Justice Joel E. Fichaud<ref>{{cite web |title=NOVA  SCOTIA JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCED |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040616225551/http://canada.justice.gc.ca:80/en/news/ja/2003/doc_31002.html |website=Dept of Justice |accessdate=8 August 2018}}</ref>
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|Justice Duncan R. Beveridge<ref>{{cite web|title=DAL GRAD APPOINTED TO SUPREME COURT|url=https://www.dal.ca/news/2008/03/06/judge.html|accessdate=28 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=NOVA SCOTIA JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCED |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090208001014/http://justice.gc.ca:80/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2008/doc_32232.html |accessdate=8 August 2018 |agency=Dept of Justice}}</ref>
|Justice Duncan R. Beveridge<ref>{{cite web|title=DAL GRAD APPOINTED TO SUPREME COURT|url=https://www.dal.ca/news/2008/03/06/judge.html|accessdate=28 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=NOVA SCOTIA JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCED |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090208001014/http://justice.gc.ca:80/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2008/doc_32232.html |accessdate=8 August 2018 |agency=Dept of Justice}}</ref>
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|Justice David P.S. Farrar <ref>{{cite news |title=NOVA SCOTIA JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCED |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090924035542/http://www.justice.gc.ca:80/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2009/doc_32417.html |accessdate=8 August 2018 |agency=Dept of Justice}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513220102/http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2010/doc_32478.html |accessdate=8 August 2018 |agency=Dept of Justice}}</ref>
|Justice David P.S. Farrar <ref>{{cite news |title=NOVA SCOTIA JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCED |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090924035542/http://www.justice.gc.ca:80/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2009/doc_32417.html |accessdate=8 August 2018 |agency=Dept of Justice}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513220102/http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2010/doc_32478.html |accessdate=8 August 2018 |agency=Dept of Justice}}</ref>
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|Justice Peter M.S. Bryson<ref>{{cite news |title=NOVA SCOTIA JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCED |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090924035542/http://www.justice.gc.ca:80/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2009/doc_32417.html |accessdate=8 August 2018 |agency=Dept of Justice}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=NOVA SCOTIA COURT OF APPEAL JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCED |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513220038/http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2010/doc_32538.html |accessdate=8 August 2018}}</ref>
|Justice Peter M.S. Bryson<ref>{{cite news |title=NOVA SCOTIA JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCED |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090924035542/http://www.justice.gc.ca:80/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2009/doc_32417.html |accessdate=8 August 2018 |agency=Dept of Justice}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=NOVA SCOTIA COURT OF APPEAL JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCED |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513220038/http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2010/doc_32538.html |accessdate=8 August 2018}}</ref>
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|Justice Cindy A. Bourgeois<ref>{{cite web |url=http://courts.ns.ca/News_of_Courts/Bourgeois_appointment_NSCA.htm |accessdate=10 July 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=NOVA SCOTIA JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCED |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090622193112/http://www.justice.gc.ca:80/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2009/doc_32393.html |accessdate=8 August 2018 |agency=Dept of Justice}}</ref>
|Justice Cindy A. Bourgeois<ref>{{cite web |url=http://courts.ns.ca/News_of_Courts/Bourgeois_appointment_NSCA.htm |accessdate=10 July 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=NOVA SCOTIA JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCED |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090622193112/http://www.justice.gc.ca:80/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2009/doc_32393.html |accessdate=8 August 2018 |agency=Dept of Justice}}</ref>
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|Justice Elizabeth Van den Eynden<ref>{{cite web|title=NOVA SCOTIA JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED|url=http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2015/doc_33096.html|accessdate=28 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://courts.ns.ca/News_of_Courts/NSSC_four_appointments_13-10.htm |accessdate=10 July 2018}}</ref>
|Justice Elizabeth Van den Eynden<ref>{{cite web|title=NOVA SCOTIA JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED|url=http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2015/doc_33096.html|accessdate=28 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://courts.ns.ca/News_of_Courts/NSSC_four_appointments_13-10.htm |accessdate=10 July 2018}}</ref>
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|Justice Anne Derrick <ref>{{cite web|title=Government of Canada announces judicial appointments in the province of Nova Scotia|url=https://www.canada.ca/en/department-justice/news/2017/07/government_of_canadaannouncesjudicialappointmentsintheprovinceof1.html|accessdate=28 March 2018}}</ref>
|Justice Anne Derrick <ref>{{cite web|title=Government of Canada announces judicial appointments in the province of Nova Scotia|url=https://www.canada.ca/en/department-justice/news/2017/07/government_of_canadaannouncesjudicialappointmentsintheprovinceof1.html|accessdate=28 March 2018}}</ref>
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Revision as of 14:02, 7 November 2018

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Judges

(Full complement of 8)

# Position / Name Appointed Nominated By Prior Position(s) Other details
1 Chief Justice Joseph Michael MacDonald 2005 Martin Supreme Court (1995 to 2004)
Stewart McKelvey Sterling Scales LLP (1980 to 1995)
Called to bar (1980) 		Published criminal decisions
2 Justice Joel E. Fichaud[1] September 26, 2003 Chretien Patterson Palmer
Called to bar (1977) 		Published criminal decisions
3 Justice Duncan R. Beveridge[2][3] May 14, 2009 Harper Supreme Court (March 3, 2008 to 2009)
Beveridge, MacPherson and Buckle (1994 to 2008)
MacInnes, Wilson, Flinn Wickwire (1989 to 1994)
Burke Beveridge (1984 to 1989)
Crown attorney (1980 to 1984)
Called to bar (1979) 		Published criminal decisions
4 Justice David P.S. Farrar [4][5] February 10, 2010 Harper Supreme Court (Sept 9, 2009 to 2010)
Stewart McKelvey Sterling Scales LLP (1987 to 2009)
Mockler Allen Dixon
Called to bar (1987) 		Published criminal decisions
5 Justice Peter M.S. Bryson[6][7] August 11, 2010 Harper Supreme Court (Sept 9, 2009 to 2010)
McInnes Cooper (1982 to 2009)
Called to bar (1982) 		Published criminal decisions
6 Justice Cindy A. Bourgeois[8][9] June 22, 2014 Harper Supreme Court (2009 to 2014)

Hicks, LeMoyne LLP (1992 to 2009)
Called to bar (1992)

Published criminal decisions
7 Justice Elizabeth Van den Eynden[10][11] February 6, 2015 Harper Supreme Court (2013 to 2015)
MacIntosh, MacDonnell & MacDonald (1988 to 2013)
Called to bar (1988) 		Published criminal decisions
8 Justice Anne Derrick [12] July 18, 2017 J. Trudeau Provincial Court (2007 to 2017)
Beaton Derrick (1984 to 2007)
Called to bar (1981) 		Published criminal decisions

Supernumerary

Position / Name Appointed Nominated By Prior Position(s) Other Details
Justice M. Jill Hamilton [1] October 31, 2001 Chretien Supreme Court (1995 to 2001)
Called to bar (1975) 		Published criminal decisions
Justice Linda L. Oland[13] July 28, 2000 Chretien Supreme court (1998 to 2000)
McInnes Cooper
Called to bar (1977) 		Published criminal decisions
Justice Jamie W. S. Saunders[14] 2000 (Judge)
December 12, 2014 (Sup.) 		Chretien Supreme Court (1990 to 2000)
Private practice (criminal)
Called to bar (1974) 		Published criminal decisions
Justice J. Edward Scanlan[15] October 2, 2013 Harper Supreme Court (1993 to 2013)
Scanlan Graham Scanlan
Called to bar (1980) 		Published criminal decisions

Past judges

Name Duration Nominated By Prior Position(s) Other Details
Chief Justice Constance Glube (1998 - 2005)
Justice Gerald Freeman (1998 - 2006) Published criminal decisions
Justice Thomas Cromwell [2] [3] (1997 - 2008) Chrétien Professor at Dalhousie University(1982 to 1992, 1995 to 1997)
Private practice(1979 to 1982)
Called to bar (1979) 		Published criminal decisions
Justice Nancy J. Bateman (1995 - 2010) Published criminal decisions
Justice Edward John Flinn 1995 - 2002 Published criminal decisions
Justice Ronald Newton Pugsley 1993 - 2000
Justice Elizabeth Ann Roscoe (1992 - 2010) Published criminal decisions
Justice J. Doane Hallett (1990 - 1997) Published criminal decisions
Justice David Ritchie Chipman (1987 - 2000) Published criminal decisions
Justice Kenneth McNeill Matthews (1985 - 1997) Published criminal decisions
Justice Lorne Otis Clarke (1985 - 1997) Published criminal decisions
Justice Vincent A.J. Morrison (1982 - 1987) Published criminal decisions
Justice Leonard Lawson Pace (1978 - 1990) Attorney General, minister of labour, minister of highways, and minister of mines (1974 to 1978) Published criminal decisions

Chief Justice of Nova Scotia

The Chief Justice of Nova Scotia is the highest position in the Nova Scotia judiciary. Since the creation of the Court of Appeal, this title is held by the Chief Justice of the Court of Appeal. Prior to that the title was held by the Chief Justice of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court Appeal Division (1966–1993) or the Supreme Court (before 1966). For completeness the list includes Chief Justices of Cape Breton Island, which merged with Nova Scotia in 1820.


Chief Justices of Cape Breton Island
Name Duration Nominated By
William Smith (1798 -)
William Woodfall (1803 -)
Archibald Charles Dodd (1806 - 1820)
Chief Justices of Nova Scotia
Name Duration Nominated By
Jonathan Belcher (1754 - 1776)
Charles Morris (1776 - 1778)
Bryan Finucane (1778 - 1785)[16]
Isaac Deschamps (1785 - 1788)
Jeremy Pemberton (1788 - 1789)[17]
Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange (1789 – 1797)
Sampson Salter Blowers (1797 - 1833)
Sir Brenton Halliburton (1833 - 1860)
William Young (1860 - 1881)
James McDonald (1881 – 1905)
Robert Linton Weatherbe (1905 - 1907)
Sir Charles James Townshend (1907 - 1915)
Wallace Nesbit Graham 1915 - 1917
Robert Edward Harris (1918 - 1931)
Sir Joseph Andrew Chisholm (1931 - 1950)
James Lorimer Ilsley (1950 - 1967)
Lauchlin Daniel Currie (1967 - 1968)
Alexander H. McKinnon (1968 - 1973)
Ian Malcolm MacKeigan (1973 - 1985)
Lorne Clarke (1985 - 1998)
Chief Justices of the Court of Appeal
Name Duration Nominated By
Constance Glube 1998 - 2004
J. Michael MacDonald 2005–present

References

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20040616225551/http://canada.justice.gc.ca:80/en/news/ja/2003/doc_31002.html
  2. ↑ https://www.dal.ca/news/2008/03/06/judge.html
  3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090208001014/http://justice.gc.ca:80/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2008/doc_32232.html
  4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090924035542/http://www.justice.gc.ca:80/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2009/doc_32417.html
  5. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130513220102/http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2010/doc_32478.html
  6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090924035542/http://www.justice.gc.ca:80/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2009/doc_32417.html
  7. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130513220038/http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2010/doc_32538.html
  8. ↑ http://courts.ns.ca/News_of_Courts/Bourgeois_appointment_NSCA.htm
  9. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090622193112/http://www.justice.gc.ca:80/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2009/doc_32393.html
  10. ↑ http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2015/doc_33096.html
  11. ↑ http://courts.ns.ca/News_of_Courts/NSSC_four_appointments_13-10.htm
  12. ↑ https://www.canada.ca/en/department-justice/news/2017/07/government_of_canadaannouncesjudicialappointmentsintheprovinceof1.html
  13. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20020420140034/http://canada.justice.gc.ca:80/en/news/ja/2000/doc_25462.html
  14. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20020420140034/http://canada.justice.gc.ca:80/en/news/ja/2000/doc_25462.html
  15. ↑ http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2013/doc_32968.html
  16. ↑ Barry Cahill, “The Career of Chief Justice Bryan Finucane,” Nova Scotia Historical Society Collections, vol. 42 (1986), pp. 153-69.
  17. ↑ Sir Joseph Chisholm, "Three Justices of Nova Scotia"; Hon. Charles Morris (1711-81), Hon. Jeremy Pemberton (1741-90), and Hon. Sampson Salter Blowers (1743-1842); Nova Scotia Historical Society, Vol. #28 (1949):by #28 (1949); pp. 10. Note. Pemberton's portrait hangs in the Nova Scotia Courts
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