Consumer Advocate Dennis Browne has been replaced.

Adrienne Ding will serve in the position on an interim basis.

Ding is a partner at O’Dea Earle, with a practice focused on labour and employment law, civil litigation and personal injury according to a release issued by the provincial government late this afternoon.

Browne had served as the Consumer Advocate since 2016, and according to government, recently tendered his resignation.