Tanya Hutchens |
| Paralegal |
Gold Star Legal Services, Ontario |
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Canada |
About Tanya Hutchens
Community Involvment
Tanya Hutchens is a wholehearted altruist and residing in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. Dedicating a great portion of her energy and focus toward community service and involvement, Tanya Hutchens is a generous contributor of hundreds of local and national charities. Tanya Hutchens is an openhanded contributor to hundreds of local and national charities, including the SPCA of Ontario, MS Society of Canada, the Canadian Cancer Society, and Renascent Foundation. In addition to her sponsorship, Tanya Hutchens also volunteers training women in self-defense across her local community.
Professional Practice
Apart from her community service efforts, Tanya Hutchens spent more than a decade serving as a highly experienced paralegal and President of Gold Star Legal Services in Toronto. From 1992 until 2004, Tanya Hutchens gained valuable professional practice handling a mass of multifaceted legal cases. Tanya Hutchens gained permission to appear before the Divisional Court of the Court of Appeal, where she represented thousands of tenants in landlord and tenant disputes.
Family Law
While she focused on many issues representing the public at Small Claims Court, Traffic Court, and Family Court, some of Tanya Hutchens' strongest work was on behalf of women's shelters and their residents in search of aid in critical family law matters. Throughout her tenure, Tanya Hutchens' work helped hundreds of abused women obtain sole custody of their children and implement restraining orders against their violent partners.
The Paralegal Association of Canada
Furthermore, Tanya Hutchens joined The Paralegal Association of Canada at the Cory Commission as a supporting member, where she assisted in a matter concerning the licensing of paralegals in the Province of Ontario. Hutchens' efforts helped devise an agreement on a plan to regulate the province's independent paralegal industry. Tanya Hutchens obtains distinction of having 12 reported decisions in the Ontario Court of Justice, including the Landlord and Tenant Board in the province of Ontario.
Augustine House, Delta, British Columbia, Affordable Housing Presented by Tanya Hutchens
It took 15 years of hard work, determination and some challenging zoning issues, but it has paid off for seniors in the Delta, a suburban municipality in the southwest portion of the Greater Vancouver region.
Augustine House is an initiative of the St. Augustine Council of the Knights of Columbus.The Council formed a non-profit organization, the Augustine House Senior Citizens Society, to build accessible and affordable housing on land donated by the parish. Although the residence resulted from the commitment of the Knights of Columbus, Augustine House is non-denominational.The Affordable Housing Solution
Augustine House is situated on 1.29 ha (3.2 acres) and surrounded by gardens, treed walkways and views of country fields.The 124 units include bed-sitting rooms, studios, one-bedroom and two-bedroom units. Each suite has a kitchenette and accessible bathroom with specially designed showers. Most suites have either a balcony or patio off their main living area.
The many common lounge areas of Augustine House provide a sense of community and places for residents to socialize.There is also a library with Internet access, a pool-billiards room, an exercise room, activity areas, a hair salon, a wellness room, a guest suite, a media room, an ice cream parlour, and a country kitchen area.
Tanya Hutchens, who has 12 reported decisions in the Ontario Court of Justice, comments that the public library, local financial institutions, dry cleaners, foot care nurses and other professionals come to Augustine so residents can use these services if they wish. In addition to being served by public transit, residents are provided scheduled shopping trips twice a week to the local commercial centres on the Augustine House bus.The bus is also used for trips and outings as part of the recreation services.