Daniel Booy
Associate General Counsel
Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Top SchoolDaniel Booy is an Associate General Counsel and experienced criminal defence lawyer with eight years of front-line courtroom experience and a recent LLM from the University of Manitoba researching alternative pleas to criminal charges. Based in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, he has advanced from articling and summer roles at Legal Aid Manitoba to staff lawyer and now leadership at Legal Aid Saskatchewan, blending litigation practice with policy and case strategy. His background spans over a decade of graduate study in law and philosophy and an early technical foundation in networking and IT, reflecting a rare mix of analytical rigor and technical curiosity. Known also as an amateur programmer, he brings methodical research skills and a practical, systems-minded approach to complex legal problems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Laws - LLM, Law, Master of Laws - LLM, Law at University of ManitobaComputer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology)Master of Arts - MA, Philosophy, Master of Arts - MA, Philosophy at University of ReginaBachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy at The King's UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD (incomplete), Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (incomplete), Philosophy at Institute for Christian StudiesProgramming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
646e62/criminal-code-tools
Oct 2024 - Apr 2025
Offence parsing tools for Criminal Code, RSC 1985, c C-46 offences
Contributions:7 releases, 37 PRs, 112 pushes in 5 months
646e62/legal-citation-parser
Mar 2024 - Sep 2024
Unpacks legal case metadata from Canadian legal citations.
Contributions:7 releases, 42 PRs, 138 pushes in 5 months
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