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McCarthy Hansen welcomes The Honourable Alison Harvison Young as Counsel

McCarthy Hansen & Company LLP is pleased to announce that The Honourable Alison Harvison Young has joined the firm as Counsel.

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July 20, 2026

McCarthy Hansen & Company LLP is pleased to welcome The Honourable Alison Harvison Young as Counsel, following a distinguished career spanning the judiciary, legal academia, mentorship, and public service.

Her Honour was appointed to the Court of Appeal for Ontario in 2018, following 14 years on the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. Prior to her judicial appointments, she held senior academic leadership positions, including Dean and Professor of Law at Queen’s University and Professor of Law and Associate Dean at McGill University. Her teaching and scholarship have focused on family law, administrative law, comparative law, and remedies.

As Counsel, The Honourable Harvison Young provides strategic and practical advice to the firm and its clients, drawing on her extensive judicial, academic, and dispute resolution experience. She also offers mediation services and supports the mentorship and professional development of the firm’s lawyers and students.


McCarthy Hansen & Company LLP

McCarthy Hansen & Company LLP is a Toronto-based family law, trial and appellate litigation firm. Family law is all we do, and for almost two decades we have been lead counsel in cases that have set national and international precedents calling for an inclusive, functional vision of family.

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