Jasmine Daya

Jasmine Daya (born February 29, 1980) is a Canadian personal injury lawyer, entrepreneur and author.
Education
Jasmine was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, where she attended the Bishop Strachan School. She graduated from with a Bachelor of Laws in 2005 and was subsequently admitted to Law Society of Upper Canada in 2006. She, then, also completed a Master of Laws degree in 2009 from the Osgoode Hall Law School.
Career
She, and her firm, Jasmine Daya & Co, specialize in personal injury, an area of tort law which deals with claims pertaining to injury to minors, club assaults, bullying, elder abuse, and police negligence. In July 2020, for example, Jasmine assisted a Windsor resident—who was beaten up by a police officer—to sue the Windsor Police Services Board for $1.3 million. It was subsequently discovered that her litigation was part of $46 million in active civil lawsuits against the Windsor police.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, she cautioned the school administrations and governments regarding the opening of schools, mentioning that the latter might be legally charged in the event of an outbreak. Additionally, she has advocated to highlight the legal aspects of the impact of COVID-19 on the elderly, citing that the pandemic has had an adverse psychological, physical and financial effect on them.
Apart from her legal career, Jasmine has authored the novel Law Girl's Bump in the Road, which was published under the pen name Leia London. She is also the author of a cookbook series—JD in the Kitchen.

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