Brenda L. Keyser was appointed a judge of the
Court of King's Bench of Manitoba on October 5, 1995. She replaced A. A. Hirschfield, who had chosen to become a
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.
Keyser graduated in law from the
University of Manitoba in 1978, and was called to the Manitoba Bar in 1979. From 1978 to 1986, she practised mainly
criminal
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,
labour
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* Childbirth, the delivery of a baby
* Labour (human activity), or work
** Manual labour, physical work
** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer
** Organized labour and the labour ...
and civil litigation with the firm Pollock and Company. After practising exclusively criminal law with the firm Gindin, Soronow, she became a founding partner, in 1987, of the firm Keyser, Baragar, Harris & Sadana, later known as Keyser, Harris.
Keyser practised mainly criminal law, but was also involved in
child welfare and
aboriginal law cases. She became a Bencher of the
Law Society of Manitoba
The Law Society of Manitoba (LSM) is the self-governing regulatory body of the legal profession in Manitoba, Canada. Membership in the LSM is required in order to practice law in the province.
, the LSM had 2072 members with active practising s ...
in 1994. She is bilingual.
References
Government of Canada News Release(accessed August 3, 2007)
Judges in Manitoba
University of Manitoba alumni
Canadian women judges
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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