Former U of M law dean arrested in Europe as part of extradition request: police
The former law dean has been disbarred in Manitoba and the U.K. after being found to have misappropriated hundreds of thousands of dollars from the university.
Winnipeg police have confirmed that Jonathan Black-Branch, a former law dean at the University of Manitoba, has been arrested in France as part of an extradition request. The matter is currently before the French court system, and police are not providing additional information until the extradition process is complete. A Canada-wide arrest warrant remains in effect for Black-Branch until he is returned to Winnipeg.
In 2023, the Discipline Committee of the Law Society of Manitoba found Black-Branch guilty of misappropriating approximately $600,000 from the university and related entities between 2017 and 2020. This included $518,000 on professional development expenses, primarily for attendance at non-degree programs at Harvard and Yale Universities.
He was also ordered to pay $36,000 in costs to the Law Society of Manitoba and was subsequently disbarred in February 2025 by the Bar Tribunals and Adjudication Service of England and Wales for failing to disclose the proceedings in Manitoba to the UK regulator.
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