The Honourable Justice Jamie Campbell

Jamie Campbell was born in Port Morien, Cape Breton in 1958. He received a B.A. from Acadia University in 1976 and an LLB from Dalhousie Law School in 1982. He worked as a clerk and intern to Justice Darrell V. McGraw of the West Virginia Court of Appeals.  He practised among other things labour, municipal and aboriginal law with the Halifax firm Cox Downie and served as the Chief Negotiator for the Province of Nova Scotia in aboriginal and treaty rights negotiations.  He was appointed to the Provincial and Family Courts of Nova Scotia in 2005. He served for six years as the judge in Youth Justice Court in Halifax. Justice Campbell maintains an interest in the issues of young people in conflict with the law. He has written on the topic, most recently, “In Search of the Mature Sixteen Year Old in Youth Justice Court”, (2015) 19 Can. Crim. L.R. 47, and has spoken to groups including judges and justice system officials in Kampala Uganda (February 2015).

 

Justice Campbell was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2014.