We are anticipating delivery of our author copies in just about two weeks – with goose-bumpy excitement.
Our Product Page has been updated so you can now see Full Author Bios for all our Wonderful Contributing Authors and some excerpts from incredible Forewords by two esteemed women Justices including Supreme Court of Canada Justice Michelle O’Bonsawin and BC Provincial Court Justice Michelle D. Stanford!
We are also grateful to our colleague Jeff Marshman for his beautiful review of our book in the Criminal Lawyers’ Association’s For The Defence Magazine – Volume 42 Number 4 (November 2022) issue.
Check out the Product Page for LMHC: Cases and Materials 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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