Educated at McMaster University (B.A. 1982) and University of Ottawa (LLB/J.D. 1985). Called to the Bar of Ontario in 1987:

Student- at-Law (1985) Associate (1987) and Partner (1990), Evans, Philp LLP, Hamilton (1987-2011), Department Head of business and property law and Chair of the Management Committee (2005-2011).

Prior to appointment to the Tax Court of Canada Justice Bocock had served as:

With legal organization groups, Chair of the County & District Law Presidents’ Association (now the Federation of Ontario Law Associations (FOLA)), Executive Member of the American National Council of Bar Presidents (ABA Bar Leadership Group) and a Director on the Board of the Lawyers’ Professional Indemnity Company (LawPro);

In the community, Board Member of the Hamilton Shelter Health Network; president of the McMaster University Alumni Association; and, Director of the McMaster University Foundation.

Since appointed a Justice of the Tax Court of Canada on September 30, 2011 Justice Bocock has acted as:

In previous years, Chair of the Court’s Judicial Education Committee; member of the National Judges’ Committee on Information Technology and Information Management; member of the Permanent Programme Committee for the International Association of Tax Judges; chair of the Judicial Advisory Committee of the Tax Court of Canada; chair of the eCourt Committee and, presently, judicial chair of the eTrial Toolkit Development Group.