Emily Hill
Aboriginal Legal Services Toronto
Emily Hill is the Interim Legal Advocacy Director at Aboriginal Legal Services (ALS). ALS provides free legal assistance to low-income Indigenous people living in the City of Toronto. ALS is also involved in law reform, community organizing, public legal education, and test case litigation. Emily joined ALS as the senior staff lawyer in July 2011. Since then she has represented clients at administrative tribunals, inquests, the Ontario Court of Justice and Divisional Court. She has acted on behalf of ALS as an intervener at the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. She also represents ALS in a number of working groups and research projects. Before that she completed her articles as a clerk of the Superior Court of Justice and went on to work as a staff lawyer at Yukon Legal Services Society (Legal Aid) for eight years, representing clients in the areas of criminal, family, child protection and mental health law. She is also a member of the Law Program Committee at Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF). Emily is honoured to work with ALS towards the goal of Aboriginal-controlled and culturally-based justice alternatives.