Alison Elizabeth Renton

Treating people respectfully is a principle that is important to Alison. In addition to ensuring that’s how she treats others, it’s a principle that is embedded in her work, including respect training and conducting investigations in a respectful and fair manner.

Called to the Ontario Bar, 1993 BA (Hons.), English Literature: Queen’s University, LL.B: University of Windsor, practicing since 1993

Alison is an experienced litigator who has attended hundreds of hearings and mediations, either as a lawyer representing her client or as a Vice-chair with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (“HRTO”).

Alison is an experienced writer. As Vice-chair with the HRTO, Alison issued over 600 written and reported decisions, as well as many unreported written directions, on sensitive human rights issues.

Since joining Bernardi, she has successfully built an investigation practice, for private and public provincially and federally regulated employers, primarily focused on harassment and discrimination, and through her work has travelled to interesting parts of Canada, including northern Alberta, northern Ontario, and Nunavut.

Little did Alison know that working on the construction site of nuclear power station as a summer student would have a significant impact on her future career as a lawyer, and in the field of labour, employment, and human rights law.