Who are the members of the Law Reform Commission?
Commissioners
Commission Staff
Angus Gibbon, Executive Director
Ilana Luther, Legal Research Counsel
Andrea Davidson, Administrative Assistant
William H. Charles, Q.C., Special Counsel
Commissioners
President (2004 - )
Mr. Chapman was appointed to the Commission by the Council of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society in June 2004. He has been a member of the Nova Scotia Bar since 1980. A partner in the
Halifax office of the law firm Cox & Palmer, Mr. Chapman specializes in corporate/commercial law, real property law, secured transactions, and environmental law. Mr. Chapman was appointed President in 2007.Commissioner (2007 - )
Robert J. Currie Commissioner (2010 - )Mr. Coady was appointed to the Commission by Order in Council in December 2007. Mr. Coady was called to the Nova Scotia Bar in 1981, and appointed to the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia in 2003. Prior to his judicial appointment, he practiced law in Nova Scotia with Coady Filliter and taught Criminal Law at Dalhousie University.
Darlene Jamieson, Q.C. Commissioner (2002 - )Mr. Currie was appointed to the Commission by order in Council in January 2010. He is a tenured Associate Professor at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University which he joined in 2002. Prior to his academic appointment Mr. Currie had a civil litigation practice. He has been a member of the Nova Scotia Bar since 2000. Mr. Currie is a specialist in the area of international and transnational criminal law. He has authored and co-authored numerous articles on this subject as well as his own book International and Transnational Criminal Law.
Commissioner (2010 - )Ms. Jamieson was appointed to the Commission by the Council of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society in June 2002. She has been a partner in the law firm Merrick Jamieson Sterns Washington & Mahody since 1998 with preferred areas of practice being civil litigation, including insurance, banking, construction and employment law. She has held numerous and varied posts with the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society.
Commissioner (2011 - )Dr. Joseph was appointed to the Commission by Order in Council in April 2010. He is a graduate of St. Francis Xavier University (B.Sc. and B.A. Honours) University of Toronto (M.A.) and Harvard University (A.M. and Ph.D). Dr. Joseph has taught at Dalhousie, Saint Mary’s, St. Francis Xavier, and Cape Breton universities. He has served in the Nova Scotia Attorney General’s Department and the Privy Council Office, Government of Canada.
Commissioner (2006 - )D. Peter Mancini was born and raised in Westmount, Cape Breton. He attended Riverview High School and Dalhousie where he earned a B.A. (Honours) degree, major in Political Science before entering Dalhousie Law School and earning an LLB. He has practiced with Nova Scotia Legal aid for 25 years, taking two leaves of absence. He taught at Cape Breton University and was a Member of Parliament for the riding of Sydney Victoria. During that period he was a member of the standing committee on Justice and Human rights. In 2001 he returned to Nova Scotia legal aid as a full time staff lawyer with a focus on Criminal Law. In 2010 he was named the Service Delivery Director for Nova Scotia Legal Aid and joined the executive branch of the organization. He has presented at Criminal law conferences and Family law conferences sponsored by the Nova Scotia Barristers society, Canadian Bar Association, and the Criminal Lawyers association.
Dr. McMullan was appointed to the Commission by Order in Council in February 2006. He is a Professor of Sociology and Criminology and the former Chairperson and Criminology Graduate Studies Coordinator at Saint Mary’s University. He is the author of several books and numerous articles on business crime, law enforcement, social regulation, media, law and justice, and gambling and social policy. Dr. McMullan is a multiple research award holder and has served on many university, academic, professional, and government councils and boards. He is currently interested in the role of public inquiries and truth, and the legal context of new forms of permitted gambling in Canada.
Staff of the Law Reform Commission
Angus Gibbon
Executive Director
Mr. Gibbon joined the Commission as Legal Research Counsel in August 2009, and was appointed Executive Director in April of 2011. A graduate of Acadia University, he received his law degree from the University of Toronto in 1999, followed by a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Toronto in 2005. Mr. Gibbon was called to the Nova Scotia Bar in 2004 and was in private practice before joining the Commission. He is on the part-time faculty of the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University.
Ilana Luther
Legal
Research Counsel
Ms. Luther joined the Commission in June 2011. After receiving her Bachelor of Arts from Carleton University, she received a Master of Arts in Political Science from York University. In 2004, Ms. Luther received her law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School, followed by a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School. She has worked for legal aid both in Ontario and in Nova Scotia. She is currently a Doctoral candidate at the Schulich School of Law (Dalhousie University) and a member of the part-time faculty.
Andrea Davidson
Administrative Assistant
Ms. Davidson joined the Commission in May 2008. She has a strong administrative background with an emphasis on the travel industry.
William H.
Charles, Q.C.
Special Counsel
Professor Charles has acted as Special Counsel to the Commission since 2001. He is a graduate of Dalhousie (where he was Dean of Law 1979-1985), Concordia, Harvard and Michigan universities. Professor Charles was the first President of the Law Reform Commission, and held that position from 1991 to 1995. He serves on a number of Boards and Councils in Nova Scotia.