[[File:alisonward.jpg|thumb|border|left|middle|upright=0.32|Alison Ward]] The 2018 edition of ''Consumer and Debt Law'' was reviewed for legal accuracy by '''Alison Ward'''. Alison is a lawyer at the [http://www.clasbc.net/ Community Legal Assistance Society] in Vancouver, where she runs a Law Foundation-funded program called the Community Advocate Support Line. She provides legal advice and support to community-based advocates in BC who assist clients with poverty law and family law problems. Alison was previously a staff lawyer at the Legal Services Society (1994 – 2010) where she practiced poverty law and family law.