Federal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson has announced the latest judicial appointments to the B.C. Appeal Court and the province's Supreme Court.
Judge Christopher E. Hinkson will now sit on the B.C. Appeal Court, where he replaces a judge who became chief judge of the B.C. Supreme Court last September.
Hinkson was appointed to the B.C. Supreme Court in March 2007, prior to which he was a lawyer specializing in a range of issues including medical malpractice, human rights and residential school litigation.
Judge Sukhdev Singh Dley of the provincial court in Kamloops has been appointed to the B.C. Supreme Court in that city.
Miriam A. Maisonville will now become a judge in the B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver after working as a lawyer for the province's Attorney General's Ministry.
And David C. Harris has been appointed as a B.C. Supreme Court judge, also in Vancouver, after practising law at a private firm.
