GROW: Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities – Perspectives from the Bench and Adjudicators

Justice Berg

Justice David Berg was called to the bar in 1998. Most recently, he worked as both a public defender and a private practitioner in Nunavut, after being called to the bar there in 2013. He has volunteered with the Law Society of Nunavut and the Law in Action Within Schools (LAWS) program.

Margo den Haan

Margo den Haan received a B.A. (Hons) from the University of Alberta, a Masters of Arts from the University of Toronto, and her LL.B. from the University of Ottawa in 2001. Ms. den Haan articled with the Office of the Crown Attorney in Ottawa. She was appointed to the Landlord and Tenant Board in December 2021 and as a Legal Member of the Ontario Review Board in March 2022. Ms. den Haan is an active member of an Ottawa choir and currently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of Kanata Montessori School.

Jennifer Khurana

Jennifer Khurana is the Chairperson of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.  Ms. Khurana was previously Vice-Chairperson of the Tribunal. She has also served as vice-chairperson of the Social Security Tribunal of Canada, was Vice-Chairperson at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario and has served as a member of the Ontario Social Benefits Tribunal. Ms. Khurana is a bilingual lawyer and experienced decision-maker with a background in social justice, human rights and international law.

Internationally, Ms. Khurana was the Director of International Humanitarian Law at the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C., and from 2003 to 2009 served as a legal advisor in Chambers and as an external relations advisor to the President of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

Ms. Khurana was the Chairperson of the Council of Canadian Administrative Tribunals (CCAT) from 2019 to 2022 and served on CCAT’s Executive Committee as past chairperson until 2023. She was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Centre for Plain Language.

Ms. Khurana holds an LL.M. from the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Lund University in Sweden. She also has a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Ottawa.