Donald P. Bryk, Q.C., was appointed a judge of the Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba

Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba

The Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba is the superior court of the Canadian province of Manitoba...

 in Dauphin

Dauphin, Manitoba

Dauphin is a small city in Manitoba, Canada, with a population of 7,906 as of 2006. The nearby lake was given the name "Dauphin" by the explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye in 1741 in honour of the heir to the French throne...

 on February 17, 1999. He replaced Mr. Justice Kenneth J. Galanchuck, who resigned.

Mr. Justice Bryk graduated in law from the University of Manitoba

University of Manitoba

The University of Manitoba , in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, is the largest university in the province of Manitoba. It is Manitoba's most comprehensive and only research-intensive post-secondary educational institution. It was founded in 1877, making it Western Canada’s first university. It placed...

 in 1969 and was called to the Bar of Manitoba in 1970. Mr. Justice Bryk then joined the firm known today as Myers Weinberg, with which he had been a partner since 1977. During his time in practice, he undertook primarily civil litigation, real estate

Real estate

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 and wills

Will (law)

A will or testament is a legal declaration by which a person, the testator, names one or more persons to manage his/her estate and provides for the transfer of his/her property at death...

and estate law matters.