David Farrar

The Honourable Justice David P.S. Farrar was born in Tide Head, New Brunswick, and grew up in that Province. He is a graduate of St. Thomas University (majors in Sociology and Math) and the University of New Brunswick where he obtained a law degree. While at the University of New Brunswick he was a Beaverbrook scholar and co-editor of the UNB Law Journal. He was appointed to the Nova Scotia Supreme Court in September 2009 and elevated to the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal in March 2010. He was a litigator in private practice specializing in commercial litigation, insurance defense work, construction law, workers’ compensation law, occupational health and safety, and employment law. He was a part-time lecturer at Dalhousie University from 1989 to 2007 lecturing first in Civil Trial Practice and then, for the last seven years, Insurance Law. He previously served on the Board of Governors’ of St. Thomas University in various capacities for eight years. He had published and lectured frequently in a variety of fields including Construction law, Occupational Health and Safety, Workers’ Compensation Law, Civil Procedure, and Advocacy. He is the past Chair of the Canadian Bar Association Construction Law National subsection and the Canadian Bar Association, Nova Scotia Civil Litigation section.