Honoured & Privileged to have been part of this prestigious panel at a very inclusive and progressive event whose attendees and speakers were provocative in productive ways – that’s all the ‘p’s I can pack into this sentence. I also learned there is a children’s book about being NCR!! Kudos to criminologist Jamie Livingston for that and a host of other innovations. Great panel discussions and presentations by Tess Sheldon Jean Buie David Wright Orlando Da Silva, LSM among many, many others. #mentalhealth #conferences #paneldiscussions #CIAJ
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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