E. Patrick Shea has created this very helpful document, based on publicly available information about each candidate in this election.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ssMe0wV6rBm1-0OWm6splNo2idPQ6dEP/view?usp=sharing
He wants it known that any errors in it are his and his alone.
I personally am grateful to him for the hours of public service this must have taken to prepare.
I expect it will be helpful to anyone voting in these elections, starting tomorrow and ongoing, inexplicably, for 11 days.
Mr. Shea advises that candidates may indicate changes. He will update with any changes necessary as a result of information provided to him
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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