Aline Bonard

Master in law

Specialist SBA labour law

Specialist SBA criminal law

Aline Bonard advises her clients primarily in the areas of labour law, insurance law, civil liability, criminal law and sports law. Along with her legal activity she also acts as an intermediary in disputes through a business advisory service to individuals along with regional and international companies. Having studied English and Spanish for a year in New York, Aline Bonard has spent part of her training at Zurich University and earned a Master of Law from the University of Lausanne in 2000. Primarily driven by an interest in human persons, Aline Bonard began her training in judicial procedure as clerk of a local court, before enrolling as a trainee to become registered at the Bar. Since becoming an attorney in 2005, after several months in Latin America, Ms. Aline Bonard joined the Swiss bar association and the Swiss criminal Law Society. She has optained in 2011 a diploma of specialization of SBA in labour law and in 2022 the one regarding criminal law. Enthusiastic and effective Aline Bonard retains institutional commitments in the Swiss Alpine Club and pursues regularly mountain sports in the Alps and around the world. She has been a member of the Bar Council of the Canton de Vaud from 2015 to 2018. She has been elected Member of the Judicial Council of the Canton de Vaud as of 2023.

Activities

• Since 2023  Member of the Judicial Counsil of the Canton de Vaud
• Since 2008  Partner at CBWM Avocats
• 2005-2007  Associate at CBWM Avocats
• 2003-2005  Trainee at CBWM Avocats
• 2000-2002  Clerk-substitute in the District Court of the Northern and Broye Vaudois
• 1998-2000  Clerk ad hoc at the Tribunal’s district of Moudon, Payerne, Oron and Avenches

Training

• 2022  Certified Specialist SBA Criminal Law
• 2011  Certified Specialist SBA Labour Law
• 2005  Attorney
• 2000  Master of Law, reference to Swiss law, UNIL, mobility program, Rechtsfakultat, UNIZH in 1998,
• Faculty Award for participation in the European Union Contest for Human Rights Rene Cassin in 1999, mentions good reviews in 1999 and honors in 2000
• 1995  Certificate of Maturity A (Latin-Greek) and Bachelor of Arts (Latin-Mathematics)

• French
• English
• German

• Labour (private and public) and insurance law
• Criminal law
• Contract law
• Civil liability

• Commentaire des articles 335 et 335a CO, in Commentaire du Contrat de travail, 2^ème édition, édité par Jean-Philippe Dunand et Pascal Mahon, Berne 2023
• La jurisprudence rendue en matière pénale et la CEDH : les travaillistes doivent-ils s’en soucier ? ; commentaire de l’arrêt du Tribunal fédéral 6B_673/2019, Newsletter DroitDuTravail.ch mars 2020
• Expulsion pénale : la mise en œuvre de l’initiative sur le renvoi, questions choisies et premières jurisprudences, in forumpoenale 5/2017, pp. 315ss
• Commentaire des articles 335 et 335a CO, in Commentaire du Contrat de travail, édité par Jean-Philippe Dunand et Pascal Mahon, Berne 2013
• L’indication de l’horaire dans le contrat de travail temporaire, in Panorama II en droit du travail, publication IDAT n° 38, pp. 295-309, Berne 2012 Sécurité au travail : le risque de l’amiante, in Panorama II en droit du travail, publication IDAT n° 38, pp. 583-602, Berne 2012
• Le Statut de l’administrateur-travailleur au regard des assurances sociales : questions choisies, in Études autour du droit des affaires en l’honneur du Professeur François Chaudet, Landrove Juan Carlos, 2009; et in Panorama en droit du travail,IDAT, Rémy Wyler (éd.), 2009