Law and Mental Health In Canada – Ruby and Me

Posted on November 9, 2022 by Anita Szigeti

I want to celebrate especially my co-Editor and co-Author on this latest book, Law and Mental Health in Canada: Cases and Materials.

Ruby and I have been friends for something like 15 years when I first met her and she became the first ever summer intern of Anita Szigeti Advocates or at least of Anita Szigeti! I think I was still a partner in the law firm Hiltz Szigeti then, maybe circa 2008-2009 or so.

Since then we’ve done so much together – written two text books together, litigated cases in the Supreme Court of Canada and we are starting our stint as Program Co-Directors for the Mental Health Law course within the Health Law LLM at Osgoode Professional Development in just a few short weeks.

It’s a wonderful life-long collaboration and treasured friendship I cherish so much.

Here’s to you, Dr. Dhand!!

And while we are here, let us celebrate our number one fan who has done such heavy-lifting in promoting my books over the last few years, including taking one to show-and-tell at JK!

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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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