My third book and ultimate problem child has finally rolled off the presses. Printed, boxed and shipped out on the afternoon of Friday, August 28, 2020.
I consider this the end of a very long journey. But yet the beginning of a new one!
Personally super excited for everyone who has pre-ordered to get this volume into their hands and for the book to be enjoyed by lawyers and law students everywhere for hopefully many years, if not decades to come.
Here’s to my team of co-authors, students, publishers and my family, who let me get away with this stuff when I take months and years away to think big thoughts.
I am blessed.
Michael Davies and me with Jill Presser and Meaghan McMahon, February 20, 2020, Ottawa
• 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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