LAMDA & @CLA co-host great conferences on mental disorder & criminal law annually. Value for $$! You can buy, for $50 or less, access to the webcast recording of the entire day and all the fabulous materials for the last two years:
https://members.criminallawyers.ca/event-3298067
https://members.criminallawyers.ca/event-3793690
Here is a teaser from 2019. This was a panel on cross-examining experts. We had heard from a psychiatrist that we need not be overly deferential to their expertise but may ‘politely hammer” them. Defence then describes how doctors are treated by the Court.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uUkP6Gm6Ng1o8n5hGP3Syr7gfIM049KK/view?usp=sharing
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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