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HANLY, Deborah

Deborah Hanly (Métis) is a member of the Alberta,and B.C. Bars and  law practices Aboriginal, Tax and Corporate-Commercial law. Deborah worked for Shell Canada and wrote for oil and gas publications while chair of the Alberta branch of the Society for Technical Communication. She articles in Ontario and Alberta at the Court of Appeal and later to Madam Justice Bertha Wilson.  Deborah held research posts with Manitoba Justice Inquiry, Saskatchewan Indian and Metis Justice Review Committee, and the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People. Deborah serves on Gwichin Land Claim Arbitration Panel and represents First Nations' election appeal boards and members of First Nations before the Federal Court of Canada and the Federal Court of Appeal. Deborah is an active member of the Indigenous Bar Association (1988-present) and serves on the Ethics and Membership committees of the IBA.

Other professional memberships include the Canadian Bar Association's Aboriginal Law Section and National Tax Section, the Canadian Tax Foundation, the International Fiscal Association and the Society for Trust and Estate Practitioners. She has appeared before the Provincial Court of Alberta (Criminal Division), Court of Queen's Bench, Tax Court of Canada and the Federal Court of Canada as Department of Justice counsel to Canada Revenue Agency and on behalf of individual and corporate taxpayers Deborah is a volunteer at the Red Deer Community Legal Clinic and is a member of the Central Alberta Bar Association. She produced and hosted a public legal education television program “Legal Talk Line” in Red Deer which featured Alberta MPs, MLAs, law professors, lawyers and other legal experts who responded to phone-in questions from Central Alberta viewers.



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