Mark Your Calendars for Webinars on Mental Health Law in January of 2023 – The BOOK IS OUT JAN 2!!

TODAY IS THE BIG DAY WE’VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR AS LAW AND MENTAL HEALTH IN CANADA: CASES AND MATERIALS SHIPS

If you have pre-ordered the volume, it is now on its way to your door – we hope you enjoy it and we are eagerly looking forward to readers’ feedback so let us know what you think!

You can order the book here! And if you do, you will now have it in your hands in about a week!!

For those interested in more content on mental health law accompanying our book, mark your calendars to register for upcoming programming of interest like these free LexisNexis webinars:

WEBINARs

There are two free webinars you’ll be able to register for which will each provide you 1 hr of substantive CPD in mental health law in January of 2023. At least in Ontario through the LSO. Specifics will follow. For now, mark your calendars to register as they will be live-streamed. Recordings may be available later but only if you are registered, as we understand it at the moment in any event.

Jan 17 2023 1-2 pm (EST) Naomi Sayers and Cassandra DeMelo will be on a panel discussing Bail and Sentencing and the particular impact of mental health in this context, as well as for Indigenous clients in criminal justice. Moderated by Shaunna Kelly.

Here is the Link To Register for this Webinar:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/8516732806850/WN_vpjVf7BFQdeskiACHz2deA

Jan 25 2023 1-2 pm (EST) Ruby Dhand and I will discuss administrative tribunal litigation in mental health with Maya Shukairy moderating.

Here is the Link To register for this Webinar:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5016732807437/WN_zpLnOxG6RCiMYV7Meo3H8Q?t=1673289617545

It would be nice to see you there.

PODCASTS

Podcasts accompanying our book on Inquests and Practising Mental Health Law are publicly available and offer free CPD.

These podcasts for FREE CPD 1.5 total in substantive hours available if you listen to both on Inquests and Practising Mental Health Law

https://lexisnexiscanada.podbean.com/

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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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