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Rim Gtari

ADMITTED TO THE QUEBEC BAR Year 2020

EDUCATION:

Doctorate in Civil Law, University of Ottawa

Master’s degree in Political Science, University of Quebec in Montreal

Bachelor of Law, University of Law and Political Sciences of Tunis)

LANGUAGES:

French, Arabic, English

HONORS AND AWARDS

Medal of the Paris Bar Association 2006.

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Rim Gtari

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ADMITTED TO THE QUEBEC BAR Year 2020

EDUCATION:

Doctorate in Civil Law, University of Ottawa

Master’s degree in Political Science, University of Quebec in Montreal

Bachelor of Law, University of Law and Political Sciences of Tunis)

LANGUAGES:

French, Arabic, English

HONORS AND AWARDS

Medal of the Paris Bar Association 2006.

FIELDS OF PRACTICE

Administrative law

Judicial review and residential leases.

Civil procedure and litigation

Drafting of procedures, case management, settlement conferences, negotiations, representation before the various judicial authorities.

Women’s Law

Women’s rights in Muslim and Tunisian law.

Family law

Divorce, separation, dissolution, child custody, access rights, child support, spousal support, parental authority, travel authorization, recognition of paternity, family patrimony and matrimonial regime, drafting of agreements in the context of uncontested divorce, drafting of common law spouses’ contracts.

Basic rights

Problems related to discrimination or breach of rights protected under the Canadian Charter and the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms.

Immigration law and refugee protection

Temporary residence (study permit, work permit, visitor’s visa), permanent residence (economic immigration, business people, sponsorship, refugees and humanitarian circumstances), citizenship and recourse before the competent authorities (administrative or judicial review).

Private International Law

Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, recognition of jurisdiction, contestation of jurisdiction.

Law of persons

Correction of a civil status record, name change procedures, insertion of a civil status record produced abroad, production of a new civil status record.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Me Rim Gtari has a doctorate in civil law from the University of Ottawa and is a member of the Quebec Bar. She is a recipient of the Paris Bar Medal, awarded to the best doctoral thesis in the Graduate Studies in Law program at the University of Ottawa.
Ms. Gtari has worked as a law professor at the University of Ottawa, teaching personal and family law, and as a lecturer at McGill University and at the Université du Québec à Montréal. She has taught immigration and refugee law at Lasalle College to train future regulated Canadian immigration consultants. She is currently a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the Université de Montréal.
Her rich academic and professional background in Quebec law, comparative law and political science has allowed her to make rich contributions through the publication of several articles in law and through the publication of her first book at Presses Universitaires d’Aix-Marseille in 2015 on women’s equality in Tunisia.

Ms. Gtari is often called upon to speak at conferences and in the media as a specialist on women’s issues in Muslim law.
Ms. Gtari is endowed with a great capacity for analysis, research, and a good spirit of synthesis. Throughout her professional career, she has been recognized by her peers for the passion and integrity with which she carries out her work. She is always committed to helping each client with rigor and humanism.

PUBLICATIONS :

Gtari, Rim, Antonuis Rachad, « Les juges et l’apparence de neutralité religieuse, » Journal le Devoir, March 26, 2019, Droit-inc, March 28, 2019.
Gtari, Rim, « L’égalité des femmes en Tunisie : histoire et incertitudes d’une révolution légale, France, Presses universitaires d’Aix-Marseille », 2015, 230 pages.
Gtari, Rim, « Le droit musulman et le statut des femmes: dissiper le malentendu », Karim Ben Yekhlef (ed.), Les cultures du droit, Montreal, Éditions Thémis, 2012, 111-130.
Gtari, Rim, « Lever le voile sur le droit musulman », Jean-François Gaudreault-Desbiens, (ed.), Le droit, et la religion et le raisonnable, Montréal, Éditions Thémis, 2009, 455-474.
Gtari, Rim, « L’union du Maghreb Arabe est une communauté de sécurité pluraliste » in A.P Donneur, (dir.), La Méditerranée occidentale. Un système en transition, Paris, Presses de l’Université des Sciences Sociales, 2000, 81-99.

PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES :

Gtari, Rim, « Un exemple inachevé de conciliation égalité et religion : la révolution légale des femmes tunisiennes : » 7th Edition of the International Congress of Feminist Research in the Francophonie, Montreal, August 24-28, 2015.

Gtari, Rim, «La révolution tunisienne: état des lieux », Training given to the Quebec delegation at the Social Forum in Tunis, Tunis, March 27, 2013.

Gtari, Rim, « La révolution du jasmin et les conditions des femmes », Training given to prepare the Quebec Civil Society Collective for the World Social Forum 2013, Montreal, November 17, 2012.

Gtari, Rim, « Les femmes dans le printemps arabe : Le rôle et la situation des femmes pendant et depuis la révolution », Training given at the Summer Feminist University, Laval University, May 24, 2012.

Gtari, Rim, «Quel printemps arabe pour les femmes tunisiennes,” Oxfam-Quebec roundtable for Women’s Day, March 20, 2012.

Gtari, Rim, « Lever le voile sur le droit musulman », in the framework of the conferences on the contemporary functions of law 2008-2009, organized by the Centre de recherche en droit public at the Université de Montréal during the academic year 2008-2009, February 24, 2009.
Gtari, Rim, « L’intelligence culturelle dans la pratique du droit », Training given at the Annual Congress of the Quebec Bar in Quebec City on the social context of law, May 30, 2008.

Gtari, Rim, « Les droits des femmes tunisiennes : une nouvelle lecture du droit musulman », Annual Meetings of Law and Society Association and Canadian Law and Society Association, Montreal, May 29 to June 1, 2008.

Gtari, Rim, « Les fondements du droit islamique », in the course in law : Fondements II, Université du Montréal, Faculty of Law, March 27, 2008.

Gtari, Rim, « Contre la mise en oeuvre d’un tribunal islamique d’arbitrage en matière matrimoniale, à l’Ontario », Panel “Muslim Men, Muslim Women, and the Ontario Islamic Court Debate – an Unhappy Marriage”, Mc Gill, 11 February 2005.

Gtari, Rim, « L’Union du Maghreb Arabe est une communauté de sécurité pluraliste » International Colloquium on the Western Mediterranean Security System, University of Quebec at Montreal, April 1998.

MEDIA EXPOSURE :

Portrait de l’écrivaine Rim Gtari, Journal La Presse (Tunisia), August 13, 2016.

Interview given to journalist May Abou Saab, Radio-Canada International, women candidates for legislative elections in Tunisia, September 29, 2011.

Interview given to Maghreb Magazine, Tunisian women in politics, December 2011.
Interview with journalist Adrian Lachance, Radio Canada, the elections in Tunisia and Canada’s refusal to hold the vote on its territory, September 2011.

Interview given to the Centre de Recherche en Droit Public at the University of Montreal, women’s rights and religion, February 2009.

Interview given to the Tunisian newspaper Le Temps, le statut exceptionnel de la femme tunisienne dans le monde arabo-musulman, November 12, 2007.

Guest on the program: « Parole et vie », Canal Vox, reflection on the Islamic court, May 1, 2005.

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