https://ciaj-icaj.ca/en/library/videos/annual-conferences/
This panel are consumer / survivors including a Crown ATtorney whose story is pretty amazing:
https://ciaj-icaj.ca/en/videos/2018-annual-conference-panel-1/
Here is LAMDA Member Mary Marshall giving LAMDA a shout-out (thank you Mary) on this panel with Sandy Simpson:
https://ciaj-icaj.ca/en/videos/2018-annual-conference-panel-2/
Here is LAMDA Member Tess Sheldon on the Administrative Law panel:
https://ciaj-icaj.ca/en/videos/2018-annual-conference-panel-6/
LAMDA Member Penelope Karavelas (speaking beautifully if often in French) on this panel closing out the conference:
https://ciaj-icaj.ca/en/videos/2018-annual-conference-panel-10/
And last plus also least:
My Panel On Stigma and Social Exclusion:
https://ciaj-icaj.ca/en/videos/2018-annual-conference-panel-3/
My bit:
48:45 – 1:01:11
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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