D.A. ROLLIE THOMPSON

Professor, Dalhousie Law School, since 1982 (full professor since 1992). Executive Director, Dalhousie Legal Aid Service, 1982-85 and 1991-94. Recipient of Dalhousie Law Alumni Association and Dalhousie Law Students Society Award for Teaching Excellence 2001-02 and of the Vincent J. Pottier Award for Exceptional and Outstanding Contribution to Dalhousie Legal Aid Service (awarded in 2005).

Editor of the Canadian Family Law Quarterly. Co-director (with Prof. Carol Rogerson), Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines Project, Department of Justice Canada 2001-2008.

On sabbatical 2006-07 at University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, taught Evidence. Also teaches Child and Spousal Support course at Osgoode Hall Law School, Osgoode Professional Development, Family Law LLM.

Associate at Kitz, Matheson, Green & MacIsaac, Halifax, 1980-82. Member of N.S. Bar since 1980. Clerk to Justice Brian Dickson, Supreme Court of Canada, 1978-79.

LLB (Dalhousie, 1978); BA (Hons. Economics & Political Science) (McGill, 1971).

Teaching subjects:  Family Law, Evidence, Civil Procedure, Supreme Court (Family Division) Placement, Clinical Law.

Selected Recent Publications:

Editor, Nova Scotia Civil Procedure Rules , 2nd edition (LexisNexis, 2008, looseleaf)

(with Carol Rogerson) Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines (Ottawa: Department of Justice, July 2008), 166 pages.

“Five Vexing and Vexatious Issues in Family Law Evidence and Procedure” in Shaffer, ed., Contemporary Issues in Family Law:  Engaging with the Legacy of James G. McLeod (Toronto: Thomson-Carswell, 2007) at 3-63.

“Rounding Up the Usual Criminal Suspects, and a Few More Civil Ones:  Section 7 After Chaoulli” (2007), 20 National Journal of Constitutional Law 129-182.

“Slackers, Shirkers and Career-Changers:  Imputing Income for Under/Unemployment” (2007), 26 Can.F.L.Q. 135-177. (An earlier version of this paper was published in Law Society of Upper Canada Special Lectures 2006:  Family Law (Toronto:  Irwin Law, 2007) at 153-182.)