Contact
office: 778-355-3366
mobile: 604-308-3832
email: amanda@platformlit.com
Amanda Willox
Lawyer
Amanda Willox is a criminal defence lawyer and has represented clients at all levels of court in British Columbia. She has defended clients charged with a wide variety of violent offences including murder (as co-counsel), attempted murder, aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, violent home invasions, robbery, sexual and domestic assaults, kidnapping and confinement. She has also defended clients charged with non-violent offences, including criminal organization and drug trafficking offences, obstruction, uttering threats, theft, weapons possession, trafficking in firearms, fraud over $5000, possession of stolen vehicles and other property. Amanda has experience mounting Charter challenges as well as Constitutional challenges.
In addition to her criminal work, Amanda frequently represents clients in Civil Forfeiture proceedings. She practices prison law and travels to prisons in the lower mainland for disciplinary, parole, and segregation review hearings. She also has experience representing clients charged with regulatory offences, including those charged under the Motor Vehicle Act, Fisheries Act, Excise Act and Tobacco Tax Act.
Amanda was raised in Victoria, British Columbia. After graduating from high school, she moved to Toronto where she first graduated from Ryerson University with a Bachelor of Design Degree. She later graduated from York University with an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Psychology; her thesis involved research on jury decision making in trials of sexual assault. She then returned to British Columbia and received her J.D. from the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia.
Prior to graduating law school, Amanda spent one summer working at an Immigration firm in downtown Vancouver and another summer working with the UBC Law Innocence Project where she continued to work until graduation. This work involved investigating potential cases of wrongful convictions for murder and working towards having those cases overturned. She also worked on the constitutional challenge to solitary confinement in Canadian prisons.
After law school, Amanda completed her articles with Pender Litigation in downtown Vancouver and was called to the bar in 2019. She practiced as a criminal defence lawyer at Pender Litigation until joining Platform Litigation in May 2024. Her practice is based in the greater Vancouver area and extends to Vancouver Island, and anywhere a courthouse is to be found in the province of British Columbia.
Associations
The Law Society of British Columbia
Criminal Defence Advocacy Society.
Personal Interests
During her time off, Amanda enjoys getting out to explore British Columbia and keeping active: she enjoys hiking, camping and taking day trips whenever possible. She loves to travel but is also a homebody and enjoys spending time with family and friends and taking her Frenchton for walks.