Dominion Criminal Defence

About Dominion Criminal Defence

Dominion Criminal Defence and Appeals is a small criminal defence firm based in London, Ontario, working out of a second floor office on Queens Avenue downtown. Phillip Dinis founded the firm after working at a Toronto criminal defence firm, opening the practice with Dallas Thompson, a licensed paralegal who had previously worked as Dinis's assistant. Dinis holds a Juris Doctor earned jointly through the University of Windsor and the University of Detroit Mercy, following an honours degree in Political Science and Government Policy from Western University and a master's in the same field from the University of Waterloo. Before law school, Dinis trained through the Police Foundations program and volunteered with the OPP auxiliary unit, then articled under Windsor lawyer Patricia Brown and criminal defence lawyer Alan Gold.

Barrister Christina Hamp also practices at the firm, focusing on criminal defence exclusively, with particular attention to sexual and domestic offence cases. Hamp holds an honours degree in Criminology and Bioethics from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom, and completed Canadian law qualifications at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law, appearing since at all levels of court in Ontario including the Court of Appeal. The firm handles impaired driving, sexual offences, assault, domestic assault, drug and weapons offences, youth criminal charges, and appeals, and it serves clients well beyond London, across Southwestern Ontario.