Providing Legal Guidance to Newcomers in Yukon – The Intersection of Immigration Law and Other Areas of Practice

Description: This session will examine the ways in which immigration law intersects with employment law, family law and criminal law, to identify and address legal issues that are faced by immigrants and refugees in the Yukon.

Bio: Amna Bhatti is an immigration lawyer and the founder of AB Law in Whitehorse, Yukon. She is fluent in Urdu and Punjabi, and is dual licensed in Yukon and Alberta.

Amna is a first-generation immigrant who moved to Canada in 2016 after completing her BA-LL.B. (Hons.) from Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan. She completed her LL.M. at Osgoode Hall Law School in 2017 while interning with the Ontario Ministry of Attorney General. Amna then articled at Levine Associates, a boutique law firm in downtown Toronto, where she was trained in the areas of family, refugee, and immigration law. In 2019, Amna worked with Lawyers for Human Rights in Cape Town, South Africa, before returning to Canada to work with the Yukon Human Rights Commission from 2020 to 2024.

Amna has previously served as the Chair for the Human Rights and Constitutional Law section of the Canadian Bar Association Yukon and has served as a Board Member at the Yukon Conservation Society.

This CPD has been approved for 2 hours by the Law Society of British Columbia and may be applied towards the mandatory 12 hour Continuing Professional Development requirement in both BC and Yukon.