SYDNEY, N.S. — A Sydney attorney has been appointed the newest judge of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia’s family division.
Shannon B. Mason, a former Nova Scotia Legal Aid lawyer, will immediately fill one of two current vacancies in the court, stepping into the role previously held by Justice Kenneth Haley, who moved to supernumerary status on Feb. 12.Mason graduated from Cape Breton University in 2000 and then earned a bachelor of laws degree from the University of New Brunswick in 2003. She was called to the Nova Scotia Bar in 2004.
Mason worked in private practice at H.F. MacIntyre & Associates before joining Nova Scotia Legal Aid in 2005, where she focused on family and criminal law. By 2014, she was the managing lawyer of the NSLA conflict office and specialized almost exclusively in child protection law, earning the title of senior staff counsel in 2022.
Mason has also served on multiple committees of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society, was a past president of the Cape Breton Barristers’ Society, and has been an active board member of the Elizabeth Fry Society of Cape Breton.
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