About the Authors

• Author: Brian H. Greenspan/Vincenzo Rondinelli/Daniel Brown/Jill Witkin
• Pages: 31-31

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About the Authors

Daniel Brown, LLB, CS, is a criminal defence lawyer and lead counsel at Daniel Brown

Law LLP in Toronto, Ontario, where he has a trial and appellate practice devoted to

criminal, constitutional, and regulatory law.

Since his call to the bar in 2005, Daniel has appeared at every level of court in

Ontario and the Supreme Court of Canada, regularly defending clients facing sexual

oence allegations in all corners of the province.

He is certified by the Law Society of Ontario as a specialist in criminal law and is a

past president of the Criminal Lawyers’ Association (CLA). He also acts as review

counsel for Innocence Canada (formerly the Association in Defence of the Wrongfully

Convicted).

Daniel has authored articles for several legal journals and contributed commentaries

for the Toronto Star on a wide range of criminal law topics. Outside the courtroom,

Daniel mentors young lawyers and teaches Advanced Criminal Law at Queen’s

University’s Faculty of Law.

Jill Witkin, LLB, LLM, was appointed to the Ontario Court of Justice in 2023. Prior

to that, she worked as counsel at the Crown Law Oce (Criminal) and was the Chair

of the Criminal Law Division’s Sexual Violence Advisory Group. She was Deputy

Crown Attorney at the Old City Hall courthouse from 2009 to 2015, and prior to that,

she was team leader of the Child Abuse Team. As a prosecutor, she did a great deal of

high-profile trial and appellate work involving cases of sexual assault.

Jill was the past director of the Ontario Crown Attorney’s Association summer

school courses, Sexual and Domestic Violence, and Sexual Oences. She speaks on

various aspects of criminal law and procedure at a variety of educational conferences.

She has also conducted workshops in Uganda, teaching justice participants how to

eectively interview children and adduce a child’s evidence in court.

Jill completed her Master of Laws in 2002 in Melbourne, Australia.

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