Starting New Role as CLA’s Women’s Director Dec 1 2020

Posted on December 1, 2020 by Anita Szigeti

Some nice news for me today. I was selected and I am now back on the Board of Directors of the Criminal Lawyers’ Association, this time as the Women’s Director, working alongside my good friend and cherished colleague Cass DMelo – it’s going to be great fun and I cannot wait to get started. I am also really looking forward to working with Shaunna Kelly and again with good friends Sid FreemanKeli Mersereau and John Hale, under leadership of President John Struthers. I am sure I’m forgetting some people. Anyway, I am ready and eager to work. Looking forward to meeting all the Women on the Women’s Committee and joining new Committees (hopefully about Indigenous clients and issues for eg). Very happy today. Nice to be back where I belong!

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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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