The CLA / LAMDA Mental Disorder In Criminal Justice Conference was a Huge Success!

Posted on April 29, 2018 by Anita Szigeti

And so it begins, a long and productive new tradition filled with learning and laughter!

An abundance of wisdom, expertise, collegiality and Michaels!!

I was first elected a Toronto Director of the Criminal Lawyers’ Association in 2013, when the Law Society of Ontario had already agreed to host the very first of this kind of mental disorder conference I created.

I then brought the recurring now annual event in-house to CLA and the result was already spectacular — but it’s even better now that LAMDA, the volunteer lawyer association I founded in 2017 is co-hosting. This is the first, but certainly not the last, of these!!

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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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