About Brandon

Brandon Trask is a former Crown prosecutor in Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia who practises part-time through Eric Wach Law Corporation, focusing on criminal defence, criminal appeals, and professional discipline matters. He is a tenured associate professor at the University of Manitoba Faculty of Law and an adjunct fellow at St. John's College, where he teaches and researches criminal law and procedure, the law of evidence, and Charter rights, and he also teaches courses on the Canadian legal system through the University of Winnipeg. He earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Manitoba Faculty of Law in 2012 and a Master of Laws from the University of Toronto in 2013. After articling with the Newfoundland and Labrador Public Prosecutions Division, he received his first call to the bar in 2014 and worked as a Crown Attorney in Newfoundland and Labrador and later Nova Scotia, most recently with the Appeals and Special Prosecutions Section of the Nova Scotia Public Prosecution Service.

Education & credentials

Law school
University of Manitoba
Other degrees
Master of Laws (LLM), University of Toronto, 2013

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