A Special Evening with Cassandra DeMelo & Sid Freeman June 17, 2021 at 6:00 pm Facilitated by Anita Szigeti

Anita Will Facilitate this Special Criminal Lawyers’ Association Ask Me Anything (AMA) at 6:00 pm on June 17, 2021 with two fearless women leaders of the criminal defence bar.

For more information and to register, see here:

Special Members Meeting & Ask Me Anything (AMA) featuring Sid Freeman and Cassandra DeMelo

Date: Thursday, June 17, 6 to 7 p.m.

Free and open to all current CLA members. This is a featured “Ask Me Anything” interactive event.

Registrants are encouraged to submit AMA questions in advance to ed@criminallawyers.ca with the subject line “June 17 AMA question.”

Featuring:

Sid Freeman:

  • Secretary & Board member
  • Co-chair, Membership committee
  • Co-chair, Jails/Prison committee
  • Co-chair, Criminal Practice committee
  • Governance committee member
  • Legal Aid committee member

Cassandra DeMelo:

  • Women’s Vice President & Board member
  • Co-chair, Mental Health committee
  • Co-chair, Spring Conference committee
  • Co-chair, Women in Criminal Law committee

Our Facilitator: Anita Szigeti:

  • Women’s Director & Board member
  • Co-chair, Women in Criminal Law committee
  • Indigenous committee member
  • Mental Health committee member

To register for this event, please go to https://members.criminallawyers.ca/event-4314704

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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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