The Provincial Court of Nova Scotia will host a robing ceremony in Halifax on Friday, June 20, 2025, to officially welcome the Hon. Judge Ian Hutchison to the Bench.

Judge Hutchison was appointed to the Provincial Court on September 6, 2024.

The robing ceremony will take place at the Halifax Provincial Court, starting at 3:00 p.m. on June 20.

Attendance to this ceremony is by invitation. The public and media can watch online at https://www.courts.ns.ca/operations/webcasts. Archived video of the ceremony will be posted online following the event.

As per the Nova Scotia Courts’ copyright policy, webcasts of court proceedings and special events may not be broadcast or re-broadcast by embedding them in another website or by any other means. However, portions of the webcasts (audio and video) may be re-broadcast as part of conventional news coverage. Hyperlinks to the live webcast page and the page of archived videos on the Courts website are permitted.

The Hon. Judge Ian Hutchison

Judge Hutchison graduated from the University of Glamorgan in Wales in 1999 and was admitted to practise as a lawyer in England and Wales in 2001. He received his national certificate of accreditation in 2007 and was admitted to the Nova Scotia bar that year.

He has owned a law firm and practised extensively in the area of criminal defence. His experience includes representing survivors of residential schools and defending Nova Scotians accused of serious crimes. He has also appeared before all levels of Nova Scotia courts.