Here is a link to this article about the Farley HRA designation in Manitoba. Along with a number of other colleagues, I contributed my thoughts on the designation.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/trevor-farley-high-risk-accused-designation-lawyers-react-1.7003438
Spoke to CBC’s INFORMATION RADIO on October 23, 2023
Information Radio – Oct. 23, 2023: High Risk Accused. It’s a label designated to a Winnipeg man who killed his parents and stabbed his supervisor. But some legal experts say the designation means there’s likely no way out of prison – for life here:
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-29-information-radio-mb/clip/16017700-high-risk-accused.-its-label-designated-winnipeg-man
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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