Roderick Phillip Wacowich is a former Canadian Master in Chambers in the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta.
[6][7][8][9] In the 1980s, Wacowich also worked as a crown agent in the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta.
[10] In April 1985, a previously completed inquiry into the death of James Townshend was re-opened following the introduction of new evidence by Wacowich.
[14][15][16] When Albertan doctors began charging fees for abortion referral letters in 1987, the Edmonton Journal reported that "Wacowich said the $84.50 fee covered everything involved with securing the therapeutic abortion and he question the doctors' desire to charge for the letter.
[21] In June 1985, Wacowich represented Canadian psychologist Louise Nadeau in McNair v Nadeau et al.[22] In 2018, he delivered judgement in Woitas v Tremblay and cited Kuipers v Gordon Riley Transport for Samuel Sereth Lieberman's dismissal of the plaintiff's suggestion that "the actions of the other drivers established a 'chain of causation' leading up to the collision involving the plaintiff.