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Jeffery Wilson
• Certified Law Society of Upper Canada “Specialist in Family Law”
• Practitioner - 33 years. Senior Partner, Wilson Christen LLP: specialists in family law trial and appellate advocacy, mediation and arbitration: www.wilsonchristen.com
• Accredited family law mediator and arbitrator.
• Author, Wilson On Children and the Law (Butterworths•LexisNexis): 1500 page loose-leaf service publication, in its 33rd year of publication with quarterly updates;
• Editor, Ontario Family Law REPORTER (Butterworths•LexisNexis): monthly Canadian family law case reporting service and practice commentary, in its 33rd year of publication.
• Invited lecturer within Canada, and outside of Canada on issues of children, youth and the law, examples of which internationally include: NGO representative, San Diego, 2002, first tri-nation child labour conference conducted under the authority of the North American Agreement on Labour Cooperation. (NAALC); NGO representative, Geneva, 2001, 10th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child Commemorative Meeting; The Hague, IAML (International Association of Matrimonial Lawyers) representative, 2010, at the Special Commission on the Practical Operation of the Hague Convention of 29 May 1993 on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption- Hague Conference on Private International Civil Law.
• Founding member and director of Canadian legal clinic: Justice for Children and Youth.
• Creator: “The Law and Youth [:] Taking Ownership of Knowledge for Power” Workshop Series, www.thelawandyouth.org; www.childrenandthelaw.ca
• 1999 recipient of The Advocacy Society’s “Award of Justice”.
• LEXPERT highest-tier “Most Frequently Recommended” Family Law Lawyer 2008, 2009, 2010
• Adjunct Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto: “Children and the Law” – 2010 & 2011; Adjunct Professor of Law, LLM Program at Osgoode Law School, Toronto, “Children and the Law” - 2011; Adjunct Professor, Inwetash-Factor School of Social Work, University of Toronto- 2011