TAX COURT OF CANADA JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCED

OTTAWA, September 30, 2011 — The Honourable Rob Nicholson, P.C., Q.C., M.P. for Niagara Falls, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today announced the following appointment:

The Honourable Randall S. Bocock, a lawyer with Evans, Philp LLP in Hamilton, is appointed Judge of the Tax Court of Canada in Ottawa, to replace Mr. Justice P. Archambault, who elected to become a supernumerary judge as of April 23, 2011.

Mr. Justice Bocock received a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in 1982 from McMaster University and a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) in 1985 from the University of Ottawa. He was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1987.

Mr. Justice Bocock has been with the firm Evans, Philp LLP since September 1987. He has been the head of the firm's business law department since 2000 and a member of the management committee since 2005. His main areas of practice were corporate commercial law, administrative law and estates and trust law.

Mr. Justice Bocock was an active member of the Hamilton Law Association from 1989 to 1999. He has been involved with the County and District Law Presidents' Association since 2001 and has been Chair since 2008. He has been a member of the Canadian Association of University Solicitors since 1987. He was also executive member, vice-president and president of the McMaster University Alumni Association from 1991 to 2002. More recently, he was nominated as the director of the Lawyers Professional Indemnity Company and joined the Executive Council of the National Conference of Bar Presidents. He was the founding director and secretary of Haven of the Homeless Child, a charitable organization in Hamilton from 1999 to 2005, as well as member of the Hamilton Shelter Health Network since 2008.

This appointment is effective immediately.

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