Alison Harvison Young
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Alison Harvison Young is a judge of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. She was appointed to that court on August 31, 2018.
Early life and education
[edit]Alison Harvison Young earned LL.B. and B.C.L. degrees from McGill University in 1983 and a B.C.L. from Oxford University in 1988.[citation needed]
Career
[edit]Harvison Young served as law clerk to Justice Willard Estey of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1983 to 1984.[citation needed]
She then worked as a legal academic in family law. She taught at Faculty of Law at McGill University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Before being appointed judge, she was the dean of the Faculty of Law at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.[citation needed]
Harvison Young was appointed as a judge of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario by the Canadian government on November 19, 2004.[1]
She was appointed judge of the Court of Appeal for Ontario on August 31, 2018.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Ontario Judicial Appointments Announced, 2004-11-19.
- ^ "Government of Canada announces judicial appointments in the province of Ontario". August 31, 2018.
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