Brandon Anand Chung

ASSOCIATE

Brandon is an associate at Henein Hutchison Robitaille LLP. He maintains a diverse practice that includes criminal and regulatory defence, constitutional law, and administrative law litigation. Brandon also has a special focus on appeals. He has acted as counsel before all levels of court in Ontario, as well as the Federal Court, the Federal Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada.

Brandon’s peers have recognized him in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Canada™ for his  expertise in criminal defense.

Brandon is an active member of the legal community. He acts as duty counsel with the Pro Bono Inmate Assistance Program at the Court of Appeal for Ontario and volunteers his time with Pro Bono Ontario’s Supreme Court of Canada Leave to Appeal Assistance Project. Brandon also continues to be involved in legal education as a coach of the Laskin moot team at Queen’s University and as an adjunct professor teaching Charter litigation at Osgoode. He is a contributing author of CanLII’s Criminal Law E-Book, an open access resource covering a wide range of Canadian criminal law topics.

Prior to joining Henein Hutchison Robitaille LLP, Brandon clerked for the Honourable Justice Michael Moldaver of the Supreme Court of Canada and two justices of the Court of Appeal for British Columbia. He also articled and practiced as an associate at a national full-service firm.

Brandon holds a JD from Queen’s University and an LLM (First Class) from Cambridge University, which he attended as a Paul Martin Sr. Scholar. As a law student, Brandon graduated with the Dean’s Silver Scholar Award for attaining the second-highest standing in his final year. He also received a number of other awards for academic performance, including course prizes in evidence, international economic law, tort law, and legal philosophy. Brandon was also an active mooter: in his second year, he competed in the John H. Jackson Moot Court Competition on World Trade Organization law, where his team placed second and he was named the top oralist of the worldwide grand finals; in his third year, he and his partner finished as the second-place pair at the Laskin, a national constitutional and administrative law moot.

Brandon is a member of The Advocates’ Society, Toronto Lawyers Association, and Criminal Lawyers’ Association (CLA), and is an active member of CLA’s Recent Call and Litigation Committees

Called to the Ontario bar in 2021, Called to the British Columbia bar in 2018