Leo Barry (Canadian jurist)

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Leo Barry LLB, LLM, BA, BSc, MPhil is a Canadian jurist and current Justice of the Court of Appeal of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Barry graduated from Memorial University (BA 1963, BSc 1962), Dalhousie Law School in 1967 and received a Masters (specialization in Jurisprudence and International Law) from Yale Law School in 1968.

Prior to his legal career, Barry was a Newfoundland MLA and Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leader from 1984 to 1987. He was a law professor at Dalhousie University. He served as Chairman of the provincial Labour Relations Board.

Barry is a rumoured candidate to replace Supreme Court of Canada Justice Michel Bastarache.^[1] If appointed, Barry would be the first Newfoundlander to sit on the High Court.

Barry is one of two Court of Appeals judges to have been provincial MLA and provincial party leader; Clyde Wells, the current Chief Justice of the appeals court, is the other.

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1. ^ Tories set nomination process for new SCC judge