Prime Minister Announces Nova Scotia Judicial Appointment
July 4, 1997
Ottawa, Ontario
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien today announced the following appointment to
the judiciary in Nova Scotia.
Mr. Justice Joseph Phillip Kennedy of Bridgewater, a judge of the Supreme
Court of Nova Scotia, is appointed Associate Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of Nova Scotia. He replaces Mr. Justice I.H.M. Palmeter who passed
away.
Mr. Justice Kennedy graduated in law from Dalhousie University in 1968
and was called to the Bar of Nova Scotia in 1969. Prior to his appointment
to the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia in April 1997, Mr. Justice Kennedy
has been Chief Judge of the Provincial Court of Nova Scotia since 1996
and was Associate Chief Judge of that Court from 1993 to 1996. Prior to
being appointed a judge of the Provincial Court of Nova Scotia in 1978,
Mr. Justice Kennedy practised general law with the firm Kenney, Theakson,
Kennedy & Allen, in Bridgewater.
This appointment is effective immediately.
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