Queen’s Marque
600-1741 Lower Water Street
Halifax, N.S.
B3J 0J2
srcampbell@stewartmckelvey.com
Language(s) spoken: English
Bar Admission(s): Nova Scotia, 2008; Ontario, 2005
Legal Assistant(s): Heidi Butler
Providing legal services through a professional corporation.
Scott works with a diverse group of clients which include insurers, hospitals and health authorities, pharmaceutical companies, shipping lines, government agencies, educational institutions and real estate developers. Some of the ways he has helped his clients are by:
- Routinely engaged in the provision of advice on the interpretation and application of complex statutory regimes and their interjurisdictional interplay
- Routinely advising on matters of jurisdiction, private international law, constitutional law, procedural and appellate strategy
- Routinely provides constitutional representation, opinion and advice to government organizations and non-governmental industries
- Participating in a number of large-scale mediations, arbitrations and settlements in complex commercial and insurance-related disputes
- Lead counsel or second chair on numerous matters at the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal, Federal Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada.
Education & Career
Education
University of Oxford, BCL., 2011
Dalhousie University, LLB, 2004
Carleton University, BA (highest honours), 2001
Activities
Director and Chair, Access to Justice & Law Reform Institute of Nova Scotia
Member, Nova Scotia Court of Appeal Bench / Bar Liaison Committee
Director, Canadian Maritime Law Association
Chair, Complaints Investigation Committee (Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society)
Member, Canadian Bar Association
Board member, Centre for Law and Democracy
Member and vice-chair, Diversity & Inclusion Committee, Stewart McKelvey
Member and Regional Committee Chair, International Association of Defense Counsel
Director and Chair, Eastern Admiralty Law Association
Director, ALS Society of Nova Scotia, 2008 – 2017
Member, Gender Equity Committee (Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society), 2014 – 2018
Director, Young Canadian Arbitration Practitioners, 2012 – 2016
Part-time faculty member teaching Conflict of Laws (Private International Law), Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, 2011 – 2015
Law Clerk to the Justices of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, 2005 – 2006
Accolades
Lexpert rating: Shipping & Maritime Law, 2021, 2024
Lexpert rating: Litigation – Corporate Commercial, 2023 – 2024
Benchmark Canada, local litigation star (Class action), 2020 – 2022
Benchmark Canada, local litigation star (General Commercial, Insurance), 2017 – 2018
Lexpert® Rising Star: Leading Lawyer Under 40, 2015
Benchmark Canada, future star, 2015 – 2016