Who are the members of the Law Reform Commission?

Commissioners

        Anthony L. Chapman, Q.C.

        Kevin Coady

        Robert J. Currie

        Darlene Jamieson, Q.C.

        John L. McMullan

        Ronald A. MacDonald


Commission Staff

 

        John E.S. Briggs, Executive Director and General Counsel

        Angus Gibbon, Legal Research Counsel

        Andrea Davidson, Administrative Assistant

        William H. Charles, Q.C., Special Counsel

 

 

 

 

Commissioners

    Anthony L. Chapman, Q.C.

            President (2004 - )

Mr. Chapman was nominated by 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 is President of the Commission.

    Kevin Coady

            Commissioner (2007 - )
Mr. Coady was appointed to the Law Reform Commission of Nova Scotia 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.

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    Robert J. Currie
            Commissioner (2010 - )
Mr. Currie was appointed to the Commission by order in Council in January 2010. He is an Assistant 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.

    Darlene Jamieson, Q.C.
            Commissioner (2002 - )

The Council of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society appointed Ms. Jamieson to the Law Commission Board in June of 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.

    John L. McMullan
            Commissioner (2006 - )

Dr. McMullan 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 he 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.

    Ronald A. MacDonald

            Commissioner (2009 - )

Mr. MacDonald was appointed by Order in Council in February of 2009. He is retired from the Nova Scotia Teacher's Union where his duties included working with three levels of government, public affairs and various committee work. He has also been a newspaper reporter as well as a commentator for CBC covering local, regional and national affairs. Mr. MacDonald is a graduate of Mount Allison (B.A. and B.Ed.) and Dalhousie (MA.) Universities. He remains active in a number of community projects including the North Sydney Historical Society.

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Staff of the Law Reform Commission

    John E.S. Briggs, Executive Director and General Counsel

Mr. Briggs, a graduate of Carleton, Queens and Oxford universities, was called to the Bar in 1974. He has been Executive Director of the Commission since 2001, and also acts as Outside Counsel to the Federal Minister of Justice on alleged miscarriage of justice cases. Mr. Briggs is a practicing member of the bar in Nova Scotia and Ontario, and is the President of the Federation of Law Reform Agencies of Canada.

    Angus Gibbon, Legal Research Counsel

Mr. Gibbon earned his B.A. with Honours from Acadia University in 1996, and a law degree from the University of Toronto in 1999.  In 2005 he completed his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Toronto, with an emphasis on constitutional rights law in Canada.  Mr. Gibbon practiced law before returning to Halifax to join the Commission in 2009.  He also teaches Comparative Constitutional Law at Dalhousie University.

    Andrea Davidson, Administrative Assistant

Ms. Davidson joined the Commission in 2008. She has an extensive background in the administrative field, with 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.

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