The Provincial Court of Nova Scotia will host a robing ceremony in Dartmouth on Friday, June 19, 2026, to officially welcome the Honourable Judge Jennifer MacLellan to the Bench.

Judge MacLellan was appointed to the Provincial Court on February 13, 2026.

The ceremony will be livestreamed from the Supreme Court Satellite Courthouse in Dartmouth starting at 3:00 p.m. on June 19. Attendance 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 Jennifer MacLellan

Judge MacLellan was called to the Nova Scotia Bar in 1995. Prior to her appointment, she worked with the Appeals Branch and on the leadership team of the Nova Scotia Public Prosecution Service in Halifax.  She appeared regularly at the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada.  She is an International Fellow of the National Attorneys General Training and Research Institute and co-author of Qualifying and Challenging Expert Evidence. Judge MacLellan received her King’s Counsel designation in 2016.