Currently, elections are under way for the Criminal Lawyers’ Board of Directors.
If you are a CLA member, I ask for your support.
My platform is one dedicated to addressing the chronic underfunding of legal aid in this province and the private practitioner under siege in today’s climate.
Our biggest concern is the erosion of the certificate model of delivery in favour of perceived, but non-existent efficiencies in the use of law students, duty counsel or paralegals, never even mind “staff-lawyers” – the equivalent of a badly broken public defender model.
I am a very hard-working passionate and effective advocate.
I look forward to working for our clients through the Association, advocating in the interest of our members which is completely aligned with that of vulnerable defendants.
About Anita Szigeti
• Called to the Bar (1992)
• U of T Law grad (1990)
• Sole practitioner (33 years)
• Partner in small law firm (Hiltz Szigeti) 2002 - 2013
• Mom to two astonishing kids, Scarlett (20+) and Sebastian (20-)
• (Founding) Chair of Mental Health Legal Committee for ten years (1997 to 2007)
* Founding President of Law and Mental Disorder Association - LAMDA since 2017
* Founder and Secretary to Women in Canadian Criminal Defence - WiCCD - since 2022
• Counsel to clients with serious mental health issues before administrative tribunals and on appeals
• Former Chair, current member of LAO’s mental health law advisory committee
• Educator, lecturer, widely published author (including 5 text books on consent and capacity law, Canadian civil mental health law, the criminal law of mental disorder, a law school casebook and a massive Anthology on all things mental health and the law)
• Thirty+ years’ experience as counsel to almost exclusively legally aided clients
• Frequently appointed amicus curiae
• Fearless advocate
• Not entirely humourless
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