Presented by the West Toronto Human Services and Justice Coordinating Committee on January 15, 2026.
For learning goals:
- Participants will understand the purpose of Gladue court and how services by ALS are aimed at meeting that purpose
- Participants will find out about how the recent evaluation of the court was conducted
- Participants will learn about ideas for the court in the future
Presenters:
Jasmyn Galley is a member of Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory. She lived in England with her parents and younger sister until she was 18 before moving to Toronto to reconnect with her cultural roots and her Anishinaabe family on Manitoulin Island and throughout Ontario. Jasmyn has both an undergraduate and Master’s degree in English from the University of Toronto. She began working at Aboriginal Legal Services in 2018 as a Gladue Caseworker and has been working as a Gladue Writer since 2021. Jasmyn is passionate about social justice and raising awareness of systemic inequalities. She believes the stories we share have the power to make lasting societal change.
Emily Hill is a Senior Staff Lawyer and Court Worker Manager at Aboriginal Legal Services (ALS) in Toronto. Prior to that, she clerked at the Ontario Superior Court and worked as a legal aid staff lawyer in Whitehorse, Yukon. Since joining ALS in 2011, she has appeared at administrative hearings, Coroner’s inquests, the Superior Court of Justice, the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. In 2021, Emily took a leave from ALS to work as Senior Commission Counsel with the Mass Casualty Commission, the joint public inquiry created to examine Canada’s largest mass shooting which occurred in Nova Scotia in April 2020.