Humna Wasim

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Admitted to the Ontario Bar: 2024
  • Toronto

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  • Bio
  • Awards & Recognition
  • Professional Involvement
  • Selected Speaking Engagements
  • Selected Publications
  • Education

Humna helps clients address layered dispute resolution matters that involve intersecting legal, regulatory and business considerations. Her work is grounded in careful analysis and advocacy, with a focus on how evidentiary records, statutory frameworks and procedural issues shape strategy and outcomes. Humna draws on her science background and experience with environmental and regulatory matters, bringing a detail-oriented approach to technically dense issues and translating them into actionable solutions for clients.

Humna is a member of the firm's Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group. She works with clients across a range of sectors, including energy, infrastructure and life sciences, and provides guidance on intellectual property and Indigenous-related matters. Humna has advised on environmental compliance, risk management and regulatory strategy, including renewable energy approvals, mining-related matters, extended producer responsibility legislation and the environmental aspects of corporate and commercial transactions.

Other Languages

  • Urdu
  • Punjabi
  • French

Awards & Recognition

  • The Jack Walker Q.C. Award for Excellence in Legal Ethics and Professionalism, 2023
  • Overall Winner, Monroe E. Price Media Law Moot Competition Americas Regional Rounds, 2023
  • Best Memorial, Monroe E. Price Media Law Moot Competition Americas Regional Rounds, 2023
  • Upper Year Scholarship, The W. Struan Robertson, Q.C. Memorial Prize, 2023
  • Upper Year Scholarship, Charles Edward Woodrow Award for Academic Excellence, 2023
  • Experiential Education Award, Navi Pillay Award, 2022
  • Highest Standing in Property Law, Clifton H. Lane Memorial Prize, 2021
  • Top Oralist Award, Frozen Open Osgoode Moot, 2021

Professional Involvement

Memberships

  • The Advocates' Society
  • Canadian Bar Association
  • Environmental Law Section, Ontario Bar Association
  • Board Member, Double X Health Collective
  • Growth and Development Team Lead, NextUp Toronto
  • Business Team Volunteer, Muslims Achieving Excellence (MAX)

Community Involvement

  • Founder, HerWellnessXCollective, a community organization dedicated to empowering women across the GTA through organizing and executing wellness and workout events
  • Volunteers with non-profit organizations such as Pro Bono Ontario

Selected Speaking Engagements

Presenter, "Maximizing Autonomy and Implementing the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities in Canada: Canadian Jurisdictional Approaches to Substitute Decision-Making, Supported Decision-Making and Co-Decision-Making," Confronting Sanism: From Legal Education to Legal Action Conference, January 2024.

Selected Publications

Co-Author, "Packaging Regulation Accelerates: What Businesses in the Food, Beverage and Agribusiness Sector Need to Know," Lexology, March 18, 2026.

Co-Author, "Government of Canada Updates Prohibition of Certain Toxic Substances Regulations," Lexology, February 19, 2026.

Co-Author, "Federal Court of Appeal Upholds Order Designating Plastics as Toxic Substances," Lexology, February 5, 2026.

Co-Author, "Canada Announces Planned Changes to Federal Plastics Registry Reporting Requirements," Lexology, January 6, 2026.

Co-Author, "Ontario Proposes Significant Changes to the Forthcoming Species Conservation Act, 2025," Lexology, October 3, 2025.

Co-Author, "Canada Publishes Final State of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Report," Lexology, March 11, 2025.

Co-Author, "Canada Publishes Phase 1 Guidance for the Reporting of Plastics," Lexology, January 27, 2025.

Co-Author, "Emissions Cap: Government of Canada Introduces Draft Regulations for Oil and Gas," Lexology, November 14, 2024.

Co-Author, "Ontario Court Overturns Dismissal of Youth-Led Constitutional Challenge to Climate Change Policy," Lexology, October 21, 2024.

Co-Author, "Canada Publishes Notice for the Reporting of Plastic," Lexology, May 1, 2024.

Author, "Maximizing Autonomy and Implementing the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities in Canada: Canadian Jurisdictional Approaches to Substitute Decision-Making, Supported Decision-Making and Co-Decision-Making," Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues, January 2024.

Co-Author, "Federal Court Strikes Down Order Designating Plastics as Toxic Substances," Lexology, December 8, 2023.

Co-Author, "Government of Canada Requests Comments on Code of Practice for Generative AI," Lexology, September 7, 2023.

Co-Author, "Be CAREFUL Out There – Common Pitfalls in Assessing Capacity," Health Law in Canada, November 2022.

Education

  • JD, Osgoode Hall Law School, 2023
  • BSc (Hons.) (Human Biology & Political Science), University of Toronto, 2020

Expertise

Litigation & Dispute Resolution