A lot of speaking engagements and conferences planned already for fall, winter and spring of 2025 are not even on this version yet, but the next few weeks bring such a flurry of activity, it was necessary to update the old CV.
WiCCD has been wildly busy this past summer and I won an Award so those are the Main Things, except oh yeah, the 20th Anniversary of the CCB Guide was published in mid-August and big, beautiful CAMHL shipped out to those who pre-ordered it on September 23 –just this past week!
The WiCCDest Award was an incredibly significant moment for me – very meaningful and moving!
• 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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