Gillian Hnatiw

Gillian Hnatiw is the founder of Gillian Hnatiw & Co., a boutique litigation firm in Toronto. As one of Canada’s leading experts in gender-based violence, she is frequently involved in claims and investigations involving allegations of sexual assault, abuse, and harassment. Her broad practice also encompasses claims for professional negligence, health law, employment law and public law.
 

• Senior Legal Counsel to the Mass Casualty Commission, a joint federal/provincial Public Inquiry tasked with investigating Canada's largest mass shooting incident. I co-lead the Commission's work on the connections between gender-based violence and mass casualty events.
  
  
• Counsel to a number of families affected by the MotherRisk Scandal at the Hospital for Sick Children.
  
  
• Counsel to J. Doe #1 and J. Doe #2 in their claims for sexual abuse against Kilcoo Camp and its Director, David Latimer. The claims were successfully resolved in late 2024.

• Dispute resolution
• Government and regulatory
• Labor and employment
• Plaintiff
• Civil sexual assault and abuse

• Government and public policy
• Healthcare

• J.D. - University of Toronto - 2002

• Ontario - 2003