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- ↑ NOVA SCOTIA COURT OF APPEAL BIDS FAREWELL TO TWO JUDGES Nova Scotia Courts
- ↑ Bishop's University News: Spring 2008 ubishops.ca [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ "Two lawyers named to N.S. Supreme Court" . Retrieved 2021-07-29.
- ↑ @CourtsNS_News (June 17, 2020). "In what we believe to be our 1st virtual pencil-breaking ceremony, The Hon. Jamie Saunders bid farewell to his Court of Appeal colleagues yesterday. A judge for almost 30 yrs, Justice Saunders retires this Sept" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- CBA biography Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine