He has tackled class actions, jurisdictional disputes, and commercial litigation, among others
Stewart McKelvey partner Scott R. Campbell has joined the Nova Scotia Supreme Court bench as a judge in Sydney, per an announcement by Sean Fraser, justice minister and attorney general of Canada.
Campbell replaces P.J. Murray, whose resignation took effect on August 6. As a civil litigator, Campbell appeared before different levels of tribunals and courts across the country; he was either lead counsel or second chair on matters that went before the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal, Federal Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada.
He commenced with Halifax-based Stewart McKelvey in 2008, handling matters involving class actions, jurisdictional disputes, commercial litigation, products liability, workers’ compensation, maritime law, constitutional law, and legal ethics/professional responsibility. He has advised on the interpretation and application of complex statutory regimes and their interjurisdictional interplay; he has also been involved in large-scale mediations, arbitrations and settlements in complex commercial and insurance-related disputes.
Campbell’s clients have included insurers, hospitals and health authorities, pharmaceutical companies, shipping lines, government agencies, educational institutions, and real estate developers. He took silk this year.
He chaired the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society’s complaints investigation committee. He was also director and chair of the Access to Justice & Law Reform Institute of Nova Scotia and director at the Canadian Maritime Law Association.
Campbell was on the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal bench/bar liaison committee and is a Canadian Bar Association member. He was a Lexpert-ranked lawyer in the field of litigation and lectured on conflict of laws at Dalhousie University’s Schulich School of Law.
He was called to the Ontario Bar in 2005 and the Nova Scotia Bar in 2008. He received a Bachelor of Arts (Highest Honours) from Carleton University and earned his Bachelor of Laws from Dalhousie University. He also obtained his Bachelor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford.
