One of my favourite things that I do in my law practice is represent #Inuit accused persons who are NCR but detained in the South. Honoured to be a member of the Nunavut bar. A small but intense and supportive group of counsel. Nobody needs us more. Clients are so vulnerable.
I will never forget being called by the Chief Justice of Nunavut on March 14 2014.
Getting Called to the Nunavut Bar – by then Chief Justice Kilpatrick March 14 2014, Iqaluit, NU
I previously wrote about celebrating the 5th anniversary of my call to the Nunavut Bar in March of 2019 when I returned to Iqaluit to teach mental health and mental disorder law to the Legal Services lawyers (Nunavut Legal Aid), here:
Today I received an alert that I am officially listed on the Website as a member of the Law Society of Nunavut. Nobody could find me there before. I think I inadvertently refused to authorize the Society to publish details of my membership. Proud today to see all the info ‘in lights’ here:
• 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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