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Cision Canada
20-05-2025
- Politics
- Cision Canada
Landmark Decision from Quebec Superior Court Recognizes Multi-Parent Families
MONTREAL, May 20, 2025 /CNW/ - Lavery is pleased to acknowledge the landmark decision rendered on April 25 by the Quebec Superior Court, which, for the first time, legally recognizes that a child may have more than two parents. This ruling represents a significant development in Quebec law, introducing a new legal reality in matters of filiation. "This decision shakes the very foundations of filiation law as we know it in Quebec. Not only does it acknowledge the lived reality of many families, it also opens the door to a more inclusive understanding of parenthood," stated Marc-André Landry, partner at Lavery, who represented one of the families on a pro bono basis. "It's a crucial step toward greater equality for all children, regardless of the family model they are part of." The judgment follows a constitutional challenge brought forward by three multi-parent families, represented by several law firms, including Lavery. Justice Andres Garin struck down 44 provisions of the Civil Code of Québec, finding them discriminatory toward families made up of more than two parents. He granted the provincial legislature a 12-month period to amend the Code accordingly. Invoking the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Court found that the two-parent limit on filiation infringes on the right to equality for children and parents in non-traditional family structures. The judge also ordered that the name of the third parent be added to the birth certificate of the child in question, recognizing the legal, social, and psychological impacts of denying such recognition. Beyond the symbolic inclusion on a birth certificate, filiation establishes access to essential responsibilities and protections: custody, financial support, inheritance, insurance, medical decisions, and more. While Ontario, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador already recognize multi-parent families, Quebec is now joining their ranks. Justice Garin emphasized that although the Civil Code does not explicitly prohibit more than two parental links, its structure has effectively blocked recognition of multi-parent filiation. Lavery is proud to have contributed to this groundbreaking legal advancement, which could set a precedent in Canada. This decision — already being compared to the one that opened the door to marriage equality in the early 2000s — highlights the importance of a law that evolves with today's social realities. About Lavery Lavery is the leading independent law firm in Quebec. Its more than 200 professionals, based in Montréal, Québec City, Sherbrooke and Trois-Rivières, work every day to offer a full range of legal services to organizations doing business in Quebec. Recognized by the most prestigious legal directories, Lavery professionals are at the heart of what is happening in the business world and are actively involved in their communities. The firm's expertise is frequently sought after by numerous national and international partners to provide support in cases under Quebec jurisdiction.
Belfast Telegraph
06-05-2025
- Business
- Belfast Telegraph
Spring Continental Market set to return to Belfast City Hall
The Spring market will be welcoming visitors from Thursday 22 May to Monday 26 May. It will be open from 10am to 9pm from Thursday to Saturday. On Sunday it will be open from 12 noon to 6pm, while on the final day traders will operate from 10am to 6pm. As with the popular Christmas Market, which is run by the some organisers, there will be food, drink and unique crafts on offer with over 70 stalls expected. Visitors will be able to sample food from around the world, including from France, Germany, Italy, Spain and further afield. Among the crowd favourites are exotic meat burgers, loaded dirty fries and Dutch pancakes. The market will also feature a range of artisan products and handcrafted goods including soaps and fragrances, vibrant flowers and garden accessories. Visitors will also be able to enjoy a range of refreshing beers or chilled soft drinks from the Lavery's beer tent or the Continental Bar. It will also feature the National Market Traders Federation (NMTF) Young Traders Market, offering 25 young entrepreneurs the opportunity to showcase their products to thousands of visitors. The local entrepreneurs will be at the market for three days on 24, 25 and 26 May. Market Place Manager, Andy Pidgen, said: 'We are delighted to be returning to Belfast, the city that has become our second home and is without doubt one of the friendliest cities we visit. "The energy, enthusiasm, and warm welcome from both locals and visitors make it a true highlight in our events calendar. We are also thrilled to be supporting young traders in Northern Ireland through our partnership with the NMTF. News Catchup - Monday 5th May "It's a fantastic opportunity to shine a light on the next generation of entrepreneurs, giving them a platform to showcase their creativity, talent, and passion.'' The Twilight Market will also return to St George's Market for two days in May. Taking place on Monday 20th and Tuesday 21st May from 4 to 10pm, the event will feature a range of local traders and artisans, offering local produce, live music and food.
Yahoo
03-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Crowe promotes Hayley Lavery to Corporate Audit Partner
Crowe, an audit, tax, advisory and consulting firm in the UK, has further strengthened its Corporate Audit team with the promotion of Hayley Lavery to Corporate Audit Partner. Lavery, who has been with the firm since 2006, brings more than 24 years of experience in audit and accountancy services. Operating from Crowe's Midlands office, Lavery works closely with owner-managed businesses, large corporates, and UK subsidiaries of international groups, with a particular focus on the manufacturing sector. She specialises in statutory audit, accounts preparation, group reporting, and ensuring compliance with UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (UK GAAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), the accounting firsm said. Refelcting on her appointment, Lavery said: 'I am thrilled to join the partnership at Crowe and am proud to have been part of the firm for 18 years, working alongside so many talented people. 'The rapid pace of change in global business, such as US tariffs imposed by the US on UK steel imports, has the potential to have a significant impact across the UK's manufacturing sector. 'I look forward to continuing to support manufacturing businesses, collaborating with business leaders and those shaping the sector, to help this crucial part of our UK economy to navigate the challenges and opportunities ahead.' The promotion is part of a wider series of partner appointments across the UK by the UK based entity. Midlands Southwest offices managing partner Ross Prince said: 'As we continue our ambitious growth plans at both regional and national level, I warmly welcome Hayley to the partnership. 'Hayley brings a wealth of expertise working with a wide range of corporate businesses. With her deep expertise across the manufacturing industry and commitment to clients, her insight and approach will continue to deliver exceptional value to our clients in the Midlands Southwest and across the UK.' "Crowe promotes Hayley Lavery to Corporate Audit Partner" was originally created and published by International Accounting Bulletin, a GlobalData owned brand. The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site. Sign in to access your portfolio
Daily Mail
01-05-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Court grants THROUPLES the same legal rights as two-parent families
Canadian 'throuples' are to be granted the same parental rights as traditional families thanks to a bombshell new ruling. A Quebec Superior Court determined that denying legal rights to multi-parent households would be 'unconstitutional'. The decision came after a judge ruled that three polyamorous families were being discriminated against under the status quo. The law only applies to parental units established before the conception of a child, not to households involving step-parents or families established after birth. It is a marked difference from the US, where most states only recognize one or two parents. 'In these times when the right to equality is savagely attacked, it feels good,' lawyer Marc-André Landry, who represented the plaintiffs, wrote after the ruling. Landry, of the Lavery law firm, represented three multi-parent families. The first is a man and two women who share four children. The others were a lesbian couple and a male sperm donor and a couple where the husband had a baby with his wife's friend due to her infertility struggles. 'Those families do exist, no matter what people may think,' Landry told CTV News. 'You have kids whose affiliation, from a legal standpoint, does not match their reality.' He added that the case has a personal resonance for him as he has long considered that he has three parents. Landry explained that similar provisions already exist for multi-parent families in Ontario and British Columbia. The Quebec government will have a year to amend its Civil Code to reflect the ruling, although Landry said he expects the government to appeal. 'This decision aligns Quebec law with the practices of other international and Canadian jurisdictions, enhancing the legal equality of children, regardless of their family structure,' Lavery wrote in a statement. 'Lavery is pleased to contribute to the advancement of the law in Quebec by participating in this decision.' Polyamory and bigamy is technically still outlawed in Canada. In 2011, the British Columbia Supreme Court upheld the country's polygamy laws and ruled that the potential harm to women and children outweighs concerns over protecting religious and personal freedom. But around one in five Canadians and Americans reported that they have engaged in consensual non-monogamy, according to the Vanier Institute of the Family. In the US, only a handful of states are moving towards legislation which would extending parental rights to throuples and other unconventional families. Earlier this month, Oakland, California became the first city on the West Coast to pass new protections extending nondiscrimination laws to cover family and relationship structure. It followed similar laws in Somerville and Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2023.
The Guardian
27-04-2025
- The Guardian
The Lavery, London SW7: ‘One of London's loveliest new places to eat' – restaurant review
One of the main challenges of writing a weekly restaurant column is finding new ways (and at least 11 times a year) to describe the experience of eating Mediterranean small plates in a room painted in Little Greene's Silent White. Other food – and, indeed, paint colours – are available, but in recent years, whenever you cast an eye over some hot, hip new place, you need to brace yourself for polenta, coco beans, galettes and neutral furnishing. The Lavery, just opposite the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, is by no small margin the new emperor of this style of cooking and decor, with a former River Cafe, Petersham Nurseries and Toklas chef, Yohei Furuhashi, serving up gnocchi with fresh peas on the upper floors of a dreamily restored, Grade II-listed Georgian townhouse. The Guardian's journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. This room is white – let's call this shade John Lennon Imagine Video White, or Ascending To Heaven And Sitting At The Right Hand Of The Father White. It's all very heavenly, anyway. There are gilt-edged, floor-to-ceiling mirrors, original fireplaces and expensive wooden flooring. It's modern minimalist with a glut of leftover grandeur from fine times past, when the Irish painter Sir John Lavery and his wife Lady Hazel lived here. The Lavery is not only beautiful, but useful, too, being close enough to the museums to make it a fine place to pop into after a trip to the V&A, or after enduring the half-term scrum around Hope, the blue whale skeleton, at the Natural History. Would I take children to the Lavery, though? I'm not too sure. What are your kids like? Will they eat blood orange and puntarelle salad with taggiasche olives? Do they say things like, 'Mummy, can I have the Isle of Skye scallop with cime de rapa, tomato and cedro, please!' If the answer to either of those questions is no, it's possibly not the brightest idea. But the Lavery is very definitely suitable for people who have glanced at the menu and prices at Furuhashi's former haunt, the River Cafe, and thought: 'Ha ha ha! I must get my eyes tested. For a moment there, I thought that read £49 for an antipasto of grilled langoustines and £68 for a sea bass and artichoke main! Oh …' The fact that Furuhashi is now in South Kensington, overseeing this wholesome, rustic, yet semi-decadent modern European cooking for a fraction of those prices is reason enough to skip over to this side of town. Take the monkfish main, a generous portion, with perfectly cooked flesh on white alubia beans with marinda tomatoes and a pleasingly rough-and-ready mojo verde for £36. Absolutely delicious. We started with a plate of fluffy, pungent salt cod with fried polenta (of course) and Iberiko winter tomatoes of sublime quality. Then there was also some excellent, balm-like, soft and runny burrata with fresh peas, pea shoots, fennel and a scattering of bottarga, which we ate with ciabatta dipped in Two Fields Greek olive oil. I can't lie: before we started to eat, I had felt a bit lukewarm about the Lavery, because, despite its culinary pedigree and sumptuous location, I failed to see how it might be outstanding. But that thinking was way off. There is a precise, exemplary method to the cooking, plating and sourcing that elevates it into one of London's loveliest new places to eat. The main course choice featured rabbit leg stuffed with Tuscan sausage and Castelluccio lentils, and artichoke ratatouille with chickpea farinata, but we were both swung by Swaledale lamb with jersey royals, courgettes, chilli and mint, and an elegant, multi-leaved 'little salad' on the side. Service was polite but formal. An Instagram influencer pest turned up in the middle of our meal, began waving her camera about and was firmly told to sit down twice, which I wholly respect. More of this please: sit down and eat your dinner, lady, we are not your film set. None of this distracted me from the pudding list, though, which may be coyly diminutive, but make no mistake, the Original Beans chocolate mousse with Agen prunes is one of the most delicious things being served on Planet Earth right now. This plump, puckered, glossy quenelle of joy with two fat, boozy prunes makes every other chocolate mousse in the UK taste like Instant Whip. We also managed a slice of loquat and hazelnut tart with chantilly cream, a sort-of-rustic, buttery frangipane tart that very much hit the spot. All in all, then, there's something rather special happening here, even if, on the surface, it may appear to be rather snoozily boring. Apparently, they're opening a downstairs cafe soon, for more grab-and-go-type fare, though I just can't see that myself. I doubt the Lavery has anything as casual as a sarnie or a flapjack in its repertoire. The Lavery 4-5 Cromwell Place, London SW7, 020-8057 1801. Open Tues-Sat, lunch noon-2.30pm, dinner 5.30-9pm (last orders). From about £60 a head for three courses, plus drinks and service
