Janneke Lewis is a partner,
and has been with the firm since January 2001. She obtained her law
degree from the University of Natal, South Africa in 1981. She was
called to the Bar as a barrister in 1986 and thereafter practiced
as a prosecutor.
After immigrating to Canada, Janneke re-qualified
as a lawyer in Canada in 1995 and was called to the British Columbia
Bar in 1996. Janneke has presented a paper, Trafficking Child Prosecution,
at a workshop at the 11th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal
Justice in Bangkok in April 2005. She has attended several international
conferences on human trafficking and participated in the consultative
NGO group for the UN Vienna Forum held in February 2008. She talks
publicly to interested groups on human trafficking to raise awareness
on this issue and provides assistance to the Office to Combat Trafficking
in Persons. She is an elected member of the Provincial Council of
the Canadian Bar Association representing North Vancouver.
Janneke
is a past Governor of Western Canadian Region for Soroptimist International
and a member of Amnesty International. She practices primarily in
the areas of criminal law and family law and is a mediator.
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