Ritu Khullar

Chivers Carpenter

Edmonton Alberta – May 2004

Ritu joined Chivers Carpenter in the fall of 1998 and became a partner in 2002. She practices in the areas of labour and employment law, public law (constitutional law, human rights, and administrative law), and related civil litigation. She has acted as counsel for the Director of Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission, and the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner. Ritu has appeared before a variety of boards and tribunals, all levels of court in Alberta, and in the Supreme Court of Canada.

Ritu has been a presenter at numerous conferences and panels including the Centre for Labour-Management Development, Lancaster, Canadian Bar Association. She has been a lecturer in Constitutional Law and Labour Arbitration at the University of Alberta, Faculty of Law. She is the Independent Chairperson to hear serious disciplinary offenses at the Edmonton Institution for Women. Most recently, Ritu has been a member of the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for Alberta (2002 – 2003).

A graduate of the University of Toronto Law School, Ritu has published several articles in the area of constitutional law. Prior to her career in law, she was an Intergovernmental Officer with the Alberta Department of Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs involved from a policy perspective, in constitutional and federal/provincial issues. Ritu is the past Chair of the National Constitutional and Human Rights Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association and has been extensively involved in the Constitutional Law/Civil Liberties Section of the Canadian Bar Association (Northern Alberta) in Edmonton. She has been active with the Women’s Legal Education Action Fund (LEAF) both as counsel for LEAF at the Supreme Court of Canada (Ewanchuk, Shearing), as past Chair of LEAF Edmonton (1995-97) and as a member of the National Board of LEAF (1995 – 1997). She has also been involved on the Board of a local theatre company for several years (1998 – 2002).