Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote here about a groundbreaking family court decision, in which Justice Mandhane of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice recognized a new family law tort of family violence and awarded the wife in the Continue reading Our day in court
Last week, I wrote about the report prepared by the Domestic Violence Death Review Committee (DVDRC) into the 2020 death of four-year-old Keira Kagan. Another report, prepared by child protection expert and Toronto Metropolitan University professor Kim Snow for the Continue reading A damning report (part two)
On February 7, 2020, as headlines around the world – and many of us — were preoccupied with the early days of COVID-19, Jennifer Kagan reluctantly sent her four-year-old daughter, Keira, off for her scheduled time with her father. Reluctantly, Continue reading A damning report: part one
Dawn Walker’s decision last summer to take her child and disappear puts her in the good company of many mothers who find themselves facing criminal and family law systems that do not understand the realities of intimate partner abuse. It Continue reading No other choice