Career High Week Ahead – Feb 17 – 22 2020 – Book Launch, Appeals in Every High Court in the Land and Great Conference

Posted on February 13, 2020 by Anita Szigeti

28 years practising law – most days are spent hanging with the clients in the hospitals and before various tribunals. Not next week. In addition to launching pre-sales of our new text on criminal law and mental disorder, I have 3 cases in the Court of Appeal and one in the Supreme Court of Canada in a 4 day short week Tuesday through to Friday. On the Saturday my organization LAMDA co-hosts a full day conference where I will manage two panels and put on a mock hearing. And on Sunday, I’ll lie down for a year. Wish me strength. Great career highs, but they come with a price – exhausted to the bone. #stillworthit #fortheclients

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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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