Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
On November 25, 2015, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Dubravka Simonovic, called on all States to focus on gender-related killing of women by the creation of a “femicide Continue reading Just because they are women
Workers in Ontario’s shelters for women and children fleeing abuse have been providing support to women involved with family court for decades. Occasionally funded through short-term grants, sometimes with resources provided by community fund-raising and often just tacked on to Continue reading Family Court Support Workers: A largely unsung family court best practice
On December 13, 2017, the criminal law chapter of Mandi Gray’s rape story came to an end when the man charged with sexually assaulting her, Mustafa Ururyar, entered into a peace bond in which he agreed not to contact her Continue reading Not with a bang but a whimper
In 2016, at the request of Ontario’s Attorney General Yasir Naqvi and the Treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada Paul Schabas, Justice Annenarie Bonkalo undertook a review of family law services in the province. Her report made a Continue reading Is there a role for paralegals in Ontario’s family courts?