About Our Students

ARTICLING STUDENTS - 2025 to 2026

Kevin Batsinduka (he/him)

Kevin graduated from McGill University’s B.C.L./J.D. program in 2025. Prior to law school, he received a Master of Arts in philosophy from Queen’s University and a Bachelor of Arts in English and philosophy from the University of Ottawa.

Kevin’s interest in workplace justice was sparked while he worked for a large grocery chain during high school: he became inspired while seeing how deeply engaged his senior colleagues were in a strike for better pay and never looked back. From thereon he took this concern for social justice to the classroom by specializing in political philosophy in his undergraduate and graduate studies. For his master’s degree he wrote a thesis arguing that multinational corporations have a normative duty to give workers a seat on their boards of directors. 

While at law school, Kevin served as an editor for the McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law, a caseworker at McGill’s chapter of the Innocence Project, and a labour relations assistant for AMUSE (a union representing casual employees at McGill). Prior to university, Kevin was an executive committee member of the Humura Association, an organization dedicated to helping survivors of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. 

Kevin is keenly interested in any matter concerning labour law, but he is particularly passionate about collective agreement negotiations. He also has a budding interest in human rights and administrative law.

Beatrice Henshaw (she/her)

Beatrice graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, in 2025. After summering with the firm, she has returned to complete her articles.

Prior to law school, Beatrice also earned a Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (minor in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice) from the University of British Columbia.

Beatrice began law school with the goal of utilizing her legal education and work experience as tools to contribute to the collective and broader labour movement across Canada. Specifically, Beatrice draws on her years of work in the skilled trades as a sealant’s specialist in her hometown of Vancouver, BC. This work experience demonstrated the importance of defined workplace protections for health and safety, discrimination, and basic employment standards for vulnerable workers. It also starkly highlighted the differences between workers’ rights in unionized and non-unionized settings.

In her graduate research, Beatrice explored the strength of provincial legal protections available to migrant farm workers in the Agricultural Stream of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program operationalized in Ontario and BC. Through this research, she identified gaps in the law and its enforcement that functioned to enhance the precarity of such workers within the industry and centered migrant workers as active agents of such advocacy and reform.

While studying at Osgoode, Beatrice worked as a caseworker in the Workers’ Rights Division at Parkdale Community Legal Services (PCLS) where she advocated alongside low-income workers with employment and human rights claims against their employers. She also served as a board member on the PCLS Board of Directors and was awarded the Frederick H. Zemans Prize in Poverty Law. Beatrice also served as a committee member on Osgoode’s Clinical Education Committee where she advocated on behalf of students in the continued improvement of Osgoode’s clinical education programs. Beatrice further completed a research term with Professor F. Faraday and served as a representative of Osgoode’s Labour and Employment Law Society. In her final year at Osgoode, Beatrice was a student editor on the Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal under the supervision of Professor V. De Stefano and Professor S. Slinn. Beatrice continues to volunteer her time with the Workers’ Action Centre where she collaborates with community members and workers in their wage theft claims and advocacy efforts.

Avery Holmes (she/her)

Avery graduated with a J.D. from Western University, Faculty of Law. Prior to law school, Avery earned her Master’s of Arts in Human Kinetics from the University of Ottawa. During her Master’s, Avery worked as a part of a research team investigating sport for reconciliation initiatives, or the use of sport as a means to promote reconciliation between Indigenous and settler peoples, across Canada, Australia, and Aotearoa. Specifically, her research focused on the ways in which lacrosse organizations in Canada have taken up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Call’s to Action and the ways in which these efforts are gendered. Avery also completed her Bachelor’s of Arts in Gender Studies at Queen’s University. This background informs Avery’s commitment to equity and social justice.

Avery developed a passion for advocacy through her involvement in sport. As a former lacrosse player, coach, referee, and administrator, Avery has been an advocate for women, girls, and trans athletes in lacrosse, creating safe sporting spaces, and the importance of reconciliatory efforts within lacrosse. This passion for advocacy continued through her experiences advocating for the needs of students while on the executive of the University of Ottawa Human Kinetics Graduate Students Association. She continued this advocacy at Western Law as a class representative on the Student Legal Society. Avery has competed in a number of oral advocacy competitions, including the National Labour Arbitration Competition. Throughout her final year of law school, Avery had to pleasure of working for Arbitrator and Professor Michael Lynk and supported the development of educational resources for the Centre for Labour-Management Development.

Avery loves golfing, baking, reading, and the oxford comma.

Hina Rani (she/her)

Hina graduated from the combined B.C.L./J.D. program at McGill University in 2025. During law school, she took advantage of the opportunity to learn about the diverse legal traditions that thrive in Canada. In addition to studying the civil and common law, she worked as a research assistant in the field of Indigenous law and legal theory.

In each of her pursuits, Hina aims to be of service to her community. During law school, she was the Director of the Montreal Workers’ Rights Legal Clinic, a student-run organization that provides legal services to non-unionized workers whose rights have been infringed in the workplace. She was also involved with the Native Friendship Centre of Montreal as a volunteer caseworker, helping unhoused Indigenous individuals navigate the legal system. Prior to law school, Hina worked at the Social Planning and Research Council of Hamilton in the Financial Empowerment Program, where she helped run services such as free low-income tax filing clinics and workshops about scam and fraud prevention for senior citizens.

Hina also holds a degree from the interdisciplinary Arts & Science program at McMaster University. During her undergraduate studies, she explored a broad variety of research interests, from her work for the MacPherson Institute on equity in post-secondary education to her co-authored paper in Environment and Planning C on the intersections between big data and civil liberties.