The Full Agenda including our GUEST SPEAKER LIST is now available for CLA / LAMDA’s Mental Disorder & THE LAW conference – SPONSORSHIP opportunities are also available through the CLA. — great PR for your firm or services.
Co-hosting this 4th Annual event with amazing colleagues Jill Presser Meaghan McMahon Kelley Bryan and Cassandra DeMelo
Featuring Shaunna Kelly Allie Margaret Anthony Balka Car La Thomas Whillier Mark Pearce Gary Chaimowitz Mary Murphy Dean Embry Erin Dann Anita Nathan Keli Mersereau Jordan F. Weisz Darcy DesLauriers A.J. Grant-Nicholson
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The 4th Annual Mental Disorder and the Law Conference: “Back to the Future: Refreshers on Basics to Ensure Successes Ahead”
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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