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WRITTEN BY TWO LEADING EXPERTS IN MENTAL HEALTH LAWLaw and Mental Health in Canada: Cases and MaterialsPRE-ORDER NOW – SAVE 10%* WITH PROMO CODE LMH10
Law and Mental Health in Canada: Cases and Materials
General Editors and Authors: Anita Szigeti & Ruby DhandThis new publication brings together in a summary yet comprehensive way the field of mental health law. Examining both civil and criminal justice contexts in which mental health law is practised, this casebook is a complete guide for law students, articling students and new lawyers or lawyers newly interested in practising any aspect of mental health law anywhere in Canada.

Contributors to the volume include Jennifer Chambers, Cassandra DeMelo, Carter Martell, Jacqueline Petrie, Sarah Rankin, Naomi Sayers, and Amy Shoemaker.

Table of Contents·         Chapter 1 – Foundational Issues in Mental Health Law: Lived Experience, Access to Justice and Intersectionality ·         Chapter 2 – Civil Mental Health Law: Legal Concepts and Policy Considerations·         Chapter 3 – Civil Commitment·         Chapter 4 – Consent to Treatment·         Chapter 5 – Guardianship and Powers of Attorney·         Chapter 6 – Personal Health Information Protection·         Chapter 7 – Mental Disorder and Criminal Justice·         Chapter 8 – Fitness to Stand Trial·         Chapter 9 – The Not Criminally Responsible Verdict·         Chapter 10 – Criminal Code Review Boards – Part XX.1, the Mental Disorder Provisions: History, Structure and Foundational Concepts·         Chapter 11 – Modern Review Board Law: s. 672.54 of the Criminal Code and Beyond·         Chapter 12 – Dangerous Offender and Long-Term Offender Proceedings·         Chapter 13 – Mental Health Considerations in Bail and Sentencing·         Chapter 14 – Mental Health Courts and Specialized Courts·         Chapter 15 – Indigenous Peoples and Mental Health Law·         Chapter 16 – Introduction to Coroner’s Inquests in Ontario Involving Mental Health Issues·         Chapter 17 – Public Interest Standing by People With Lived Experience of Mental Health Issues at Ontario Coroner’s Inquests – Part I: Recommendations From Inquests in Police-involved Deaths·         Chapter 18 – Public Interest Standing by People With Lived Experience of Mental Health Issues at Ontario Coroner’s Inquests – Part II: Recommendations From Inquests in Institutional Deaths·         Chapter 19 – Practicing Mental Health Law: Advocacy Tools, Trauma-Informed Lawyering, Empathy and Increasing Access to Justice $135  |  Approx. 450 pages  |  Softcover  |  January 2023  |  ISBN: 9780433525165
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WE ALSO RECOMMENDA Guide to Consent & Capacity Law in Ontario, 2023 Edition
A Guide to Consent & Capacity Law in Ontario,
2023 Edition
 
D’Arcy Hiltz & Anita Szigeti
This guide assists readers in navigating through the Mental Health Act, the Health Care Consent Act, 1996, the Substitute Decisions Act, 1992, and the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004and interrelated statutes.$113  |  954 pages  |  Softcover  |  Annual**  |  August 2022   
ISBN: 9780433522157ORDER NOWLaw and Disability in Canada: Cases and Materials
Law and Disability in Canada: Cases and Materials
Jacobs / Dhand / Ireland / Jochelson / Kodar / BayThis title discusses persons with disabilities and their interactions with the law. Through an examination of barriers regularly faced by people with disabilities, the authors – six academics and experts in the field – present key and foundational domestic and international equality rights instruments, the history of disability rights litigation and several contemporary access to justice issues.$135  |  304 pages  |  Softcover  |  August 2021   
ISBN: 9780433497127  ORDER NOWA Guide to Mental Disorder Law in Canadian Criminal Justice
A Guide to Mental Disorder Law in Canadian
Criminal Justice

Davies / Szigeti / McMahon / Presser This book sets out the applicable law and provides practical advice on mental disorder cases. It is a comprehensive guide to criminal litigation involving vulnerable accused persons who may be unfit to stand trial, considering whether to seek a verdict of “Not Criminally Responsible” and navigating through the complex provisions within Part XX.1, the Mental Disorder Provisions of the Criminal Code.$180  |  440 pages  |  Softcover  |  August 2020   
ISBN: 9780433503699 ORDER NOWHalsbury's Laws of Canada – Mental Health (2019 Reissue) / Military (2019 Reissue) / Mines and Minerals (2019 Reissue)
Halsbury’s Laws of Canada – Mental Health
(2019 Reissue)

D’Arcy Hiltz, Anita Szigeti & Ruby DhandThis guide provides a national explanation of Canada’s civil mental health system. It is an ideal reference for every lawyer seeking a clear and accessible understanding of its legislative and judicial underpinnings. Part of the Military / Mines and Minerals volume.$325  |  1,032 pages  |  Hardcover  |  September 2019
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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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