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Biographical Info
Daphne is a family lawyer who has practiced law in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, for over forty years. Her interest in Alternative Dispute Resolution led her to become a fully certified Collaborative Family Law practitioner, and she has successfully completed many cases using this effective cooperative method. She enjoys helping clients obtain fair separation agreements without the need for formal court hearings, or for lengthy (and often slow) written negotiations. She has a BA from Queen’s University in Ontario and a law degree from Oxford in England. She has held many positions with the national Canadian Bar Association; she worked on their Legal Aid Committee for many years, and on their Task Force on Gender Equality in the legal profession, led by Justice Bertha Wilson of the Supreme Court of Canada. In the year 2000 she became national President of the Bar Association, and focused her energies on improving access to justice for disadvantaged Canadians.
Daphne received the Order of Canada for her life-long work on access to justice. She also received the Governor General’s Award in Honour of the Person’s Case in 2009, for work on women’s rights, and for being a founding mother of LEAF (the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund) which conducts Supreme Court test case litigation to give effect to women’s Charter guarantees.
