LAMDA is now able to provide a link to the Session on Zoom Advocacy we co-hosted with Crown Law Criminal on January 28, 2021.
We can only provide the link to members of specific defence counsel advocacy groups. Particulars are available through LAMDA at the lamda.exec@gmail.com email address.
If an organization is eligible to view the tape, you will receive an email through your association about the terms to access the video, which include that you cannot redistribute, otherwise share, record or take screen-shots.
This was a two-hour panel discussion among six Justices of the Court of Appeal for Ontario – see our information about the session here:
LAMDA co-hosts UNIQUE ADVOCACY Event with CLOC – SIX JUSTICES OF ONTARIO’S COURT OF APPEAL JOIN US JAN 28
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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