Two judicial vacancies within the Court of King’s Bench in New Brunswick have been filled.
Justice Stephen Doucet and Justice Maya Hamou have been appointed to the court’s trial division.
Doucet will work in Miramichi while Hamou will be based in Moncton, according to a federal government news release.
“I am confident they will serve the people of New Brunswick well as members of the Court of King’s Bench of New Brunswick,” Arif Virani, federal justice minister and Attorney General of Canada, said in the release.
Doucet and Hamou will fill vacancies left when two Court of King’s Bench justices previously elected to become part-time judges.
The Miramichi position has been vacant for nearly two years while the Moncton position became vacant in April.
Doucet practised in both official languages during his 29-year career as a lawyer, primarily in the fields of family law, estate law and real estate law.
He has also acted as the chairperson for the Mental Health Review Board of New Brunswick and a member of the New Brunswick Assessment and Planning Appeal Board.
Hamou, who was admitted to the bar in 2009, worked as an agent for the Public Prosecution Service of Canada. For close to a decade, she worked with the Civil Litigation Group of the Office of the Attorney General of New Brunswick.
Since 2019, she has worked as a hearing officer with the Department of Justice and Public Safety, conducting emergency hearings pursuant to the Intimate Partner Violence Intervention Act and Small Claims Court adjudications.
Federal judicial appointments are made by the governor general, acting on the advice of the federal cabinet and recommendations from the justice minister.
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