Haley Hrymak

Haley is a staff lawyer at Rise Women’s Legal Centre and conducts original research to support Rise’s goal of providing responsive family law services to women and gender diverse people in BC. On behalf of Rise, Haley has led numerous research projects on family violence and its intersection with the family law system. Haley began working at Rise in 2018 and is grateful for the opportunity to work towards systemic change at Rise in her role. In her work she advocates that access to justice for survivors of violence requires everyone working in the legal system to have mandatory and ongoing education on family violence.

Haley was called to the bar in 2015 and holds a Bachelor of Arts, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Manitoba, and a LL.M from UBC. Outside of Rise she is a PhD Candidate at UBC’s Peter A. Allard School of Law where her research focuses on economic abuse and BC’s child support system.

Nilufa Hussein

Nilufa Husein received her B.A in Psychology from York University in 1992 and her Law Degree from the University of Ottawa in 1995. Prior to law school, Nilufa worked for Victim Services of Peel in the Domestic Violence Unit. After law school, she Articled with the Ministry of the Attorney General, Office of the Children’s Lawyer from 1995-1996, and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1997. In 2003, she joined the legal department at the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic as a staff family lawyer and worked there until 2016, after which she worked briefly for a large firm, Miller Thomson, for approximately one year from 2016 to 2017.

In 2017 Nilufa commenced her own private practice in North York, Ontario working primarily in the areas of family law and often advocating for victims of domestic violence in family court. She is a Member of the Area Committee, Legal Aid Ontario, Legal Aid’s Domestic violence, Certificate and Duty counsel panels.