The Provincial Court of Nova Scotia will host a robing ceremony in Membertou on Friday, May 9, 2025, to officially welcome the Hon. Judge Mark Scott and the Hon. Judge Brian Warcop to the Bench.

Both were appointed to the Provincial Court on January 24, 2025.

The robing ceremony will take place at the Membertou Trade & Convention Centre, starting at 12:30 p.m. on May 9.

Attendance to this ceremony 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 Mark Scott

Judge Scott, who grew up in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, was called to the Nova Scotia bar in December 1996. Having worked for both the federal and provincial Crown, he has done criminal defence, appeals, and per diem work. In 1998, he was appointed as a Crown attorney in the Halifax office of the Nova Scotia Public Prosecution Service, where he prosecuted a wide range of criminal offences.

Judge Scott, whose most recent role at PPS was Chief Crown Attorney of Appeals and Special Prosecutions, has conducted more than 150 criminal appeals in both the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. He is a past president of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society.

Judge Scott is one of two Provincial Court representatives on the All Courts Technology Committee.

The Hon. Judge Brian Warcop

Judge Warcop, a native of Glace Bay, was called to the Ontario bar in 2005 and was appointed an assistant Crown attorney by the Ontario Minister of the Attorney General in 2006. He was called to the Nova Scotia bar in 2015 and worked as a senior Crown attorney with the Nova Scotia Public Prosecution Service from 2015 to 2016.

He then became a partner with a private practice, where he represented clients in criminal matters, and also acted as counsel for legal aid matters in Halifax. More recently, he returned to work with PPS as a senior Crown attorney.

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