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July 28, 2015

Caroline Harnois, speaker at Université de Sherbrooke

On July 27, 2015, Caroline Harnois, a Partner in the Family Law, Personal Law and Estate Law Group at Lavery, gave a conference on the transnational aspects of family law to the students of the Master in Law Program in Common Law and Transnational Law at the Faculty of Law, Université de Sherbrooke. Ms. Harnois addressed the students as part of their class on “Transnational Practice”, an initiative of Mr. Olivier Barsalou and Professor Derek McKee, Director of the common law and transnational law program, and shared her experience and her career path in international and transnational law as well as family law. 

November 26, 2014

Caroline Harnois of Lavery speaks on Family Mediation in the Context of Dual Nationality and Long Distance and publishes a Family Law Bulletin column

Ms. Caroline Harnois, a partner in Lavery’s Family Law, Personal Law and Estate Law team, has published a column in the Family Law Bulletin (Bulletin Droit de la Famille, Éditions Yvon Blais) on the Hague Convention of 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. Ms. Harnois also spoke at a conference on Family Mediation in the Context of Dual Nationality and Long Distance (La médiation familiale dans un contexte de bi-nationalité et à distance) on November 7-8.  The conference was organized by the AIFI (Association internationale francophone des intervenants auprès des familles séparées) and the COAMF (Comité des organismes accréditeurs en médiation familiale). Ms. Harnois’ presentation was given jointly with Ms. France Rémillard, Director of Central Authority for Quebec under the Hague Convention, at the Ministry of Justice. Ms. Jocelyne Dahan, a Family Mediator from France and Ms. Lorraine Filion, a social worker and Family mediator, also gave a presentation.