About Dennis
Browne practices administrative law and was called to the bar in 1984 and appointed Queen's Counsel in 1997. He is best known as the province's Consumer Advocate, representing ratepayers on electricity issues from 1996 to 2004 and again from 2016 to the present. He has been a labour arbitrator since 1986 and a federal labour adjudicator and mediator since 1990, and he chaired the Newfoundland Labour Relations Board from 1989 to 1998. From 2017 to 2018 he chaired the New Brunswick Ministerial Task Force and WorkSafeNB, and from 1989 to 1990 he was counsel to the Archdiocesan Commission of Enquiry on Sexual Abuse of Children by Members of the Clergy. In 1997 he authored a report to the Newfoundland and Labrador government on gasoline pricing, and from 2000 to 2002 he served on the province's Freedom of Information Review Committee. From 2010 to 2014 he was a member of the 2041 Lawyers Group, which opposed the Muskrat Falls development.
Practice areas
Education & credentials
- Law school
- Dalhousie Law School
Listing compiled from public sources in July 2026. Confirm Dennis Browne’s licence and standing in the Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador directory ↗