PRIME
MINISTER ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF ASSOCIATE CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE COURT OF
QUEEN’S BENCH OF ALBERTA
Prime
Minister Paul Martin today announced that Her Excellency the Governor
General has approved his recommendation that the Honourable Neil Charles
Wittmann be appointed Associate Chief Justice of the Court of Queen’s
Bench of Alberta. He
will replace the Honourable Allan B. Sulatycky who has chosen to become a
supernumerary judge.
Associate
Chief Justice Wittmann received a Bachelor of Laws from the University of
Alberta in 1967 and was admitted to the Law Society of Alberta in 1968.
He also holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of
Manitoba. He was appointed a
judge of the Court of Appeal of Alberta and the Court of Appeal of the
Northwest Territories on June 8, 1999 and, later that same year, was also
appointed to the Court of Appeal of Nunavut.
Prior to being appointed to the bench, he was a partner with the
firm of Code Hunter Wittmann.
This
appointment comes into effect immediately.
