About the Authors

• Author: Erin Winocur/Danielle Robitaille/Maya Borooah
• Pages: 33-34

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About the Authors

Erin Winocur has been a prosecutor for 29 years. She has represented the Crown in

countless sentencing hearings and plea negotiations on all types of Criminal Code

oences. Ms Winocur was seconded from her work as a trial Crown to the Criminal

Law Policy Branch between 2008 and 2013. There she worked on legislative reform

projects, such as the reforms to self-defence, identify theft, and the provisions that

govern the sentencing of people convicted of multiple murders. She was part of a

specialized team created by the Criminal Law Division of the Ministry of the Attorney

General that worked to address the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the

justice system. Ms Winocur regularly appears in Toronto’s specialized courts, includ-

ing the Gladue Court for Indigenous Oenders and Mental Health Court. She teaches

trial advocacy at Osgoode Hall Law School and regularly lectures on sentencing and

a wide range of criminal law topics at Queen’s University, the Federation of Law

Societies of Canada National Criminal Law Program, the National Judicial Institute,

and Osgoode Professional Development. She is the parent of twin daughters.

Danielle Robitaille has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto and an

LLB from Dalhousie University, where she won the Muriel Duckworth Award for

raising consciousness of women’s issues and feminism in the legal community.

MsRobitaille is the managing partner at Henein Hutchison Robitaille LLP, where her

practice focuses on criminal, regulatory, and disciplinary litigation at both the trial and

appellate levels. She also acts in select civil matters and leads internal investigations

for businesses and organizations. Ms Robitaille is a fellow of the American College of

Trial Lawyers. In April 2016, Ms Robitaille was appointed senior counsel to the

Honourable Justice Michael Tulloch on the Independent Police Oversight Review,

which delivered its sweeping law-reform report to the Ontario government in March

of 2017. Ms Robitaille’s practice takes her all over the province of Ontario, and she

frequently appears in high-profile litigation and investigations.

Ms Robitaille has lectured extensively on trial advocacy, expert evidence, and ethical

issues at the Law Society of Ontario, the Federation of Law Societies, Osgoode Profes-

sional Development, the Advocates’ Society, the Oce of the Chief Coroner of

Ontario, and the Ontario Court of Justice. She is the parent of thirteen-year-old twins.

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