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Sarah L. Boyd, BA (Hons., Queen’s), LL.B. (Osgoode) is a lawyer practicing immigration and refugee law in Toronto and remotely for 15 years. She has served as a supervising lawyer/mentor for programs run by Legal Aid Ontario (Second Chair Program) and Pro Bono Students Canada (Refugee Sponsorship Support Program). She articled and early in her career worked for Lorne Waldman, and from 2010 to mid-2019 worked with Barbara Jackman, as an associated sole practitioner and later as an associate. She returned to sole practice in 2019. She regularly appears before all branches of the Immigration and Refugee Board and in the Federal Courts.
Ms. Boyd has been a speaker at conferences and workshops held by organizations including the Law Society of Ontario (formerly the Law Society of Upper Canada), the Legal Aid Ontario Refugee Law Office, the Refugee Lawyers Association (RLA), the Canadian Council for Refugees, the Junior Refugee and Immigration Lawyers Network (JRILN), and the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers. She is currently in the executive of the RLA and the JRILN. She has spoken / presented on areas including detention and refugee protection, and has been involved in enforcement-related litigation throughout her career, including in four of the five Security Certificate cases, as well as the immigration detention / habeas corpus cases (Chhina and Ogiamien, et al.).