Sybil is a graduate of the Faculty of Law at McGill University, Oxford University, and the University of Toronto, with experience working as a legal advisor and consultant with private and public-sector organizations, both within Canada and abroad.
Sybil studied International Relations and Socio-Cultural Anthropology at the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford. As a Canadian Red Cross Society volunteer, she produced an educational video on children affected by armed conflict. She has also worked as a Legal Advisor at Africa & Middle East Refugee Assistance in Cairo, Egypt. While completing her B.C.L. and LL.B. at the Faculty of Law at McGill University in Montréal, Sybil received the Faculty’s Lindsey Anne Cameron Award (for her participation in the Human Rights Internship Program) and also the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada’s 2007 Students for Development Award.
Sybil has published on the subject of human rights in the African context (The Fight for Human Rights in Africa: Perspectives on the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights [2008]), and has worked as a Consultant to the National Human Rights Institutions and Regional Mechanisms Section in the United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland. She has also facilitated training in administrative oversight investigations for national human rights institutions in Morocco and Ethiopia, offered by the Ontario Ombudsman’s office.
Since 2010, Sybil has been a Member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, employed as a Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice Canada in Toronto. Her skills in civil litigation and dispute settlement have been employed in the areas of constitutional and public law, administrative law, immigration law and family law. She has skills and training in both intensive trial advocacy and advanced mediation advocacy from Osgoode Hall Law School. Sybil’s litigation experience is documented in over 50 publicly reported decisions, and in a significant number of cases successfully resolved for her clients through settlement. Sybil is fully bilingual in English and French.
