I’ve begun referring to them as the Black Book, Blue Book, the Red Book, The Teal Book, and I guess the “CCB Guide” because it changes colour every year and in 2025 features the Anniversary banner in Gold and let’s say a deep silver………..
But indeed I am now the proud co-author and co-editor of five textbooks on mental health and mental disorder, and the law.
A tradition that has developed absolutely organically that I find particularly charming is this wonderful girl reading the books as they are delivered. She famously took an earlier edition of the CCB Guide to “show and tell” in junior kindergarten!
Here are some of my favourite pics of this many years long adventure
MDL Guide 2020
CCB Guide 2021
CCB Guide 2022
Law and Mental Health in Canada: Cases and Materials (LMHC) 2022/2023
Canadian Anthology on Mental Health and the Law (2024)
Other Special Guests!
Two wonderful girls reading up on Consent and Capacity Law in 2021
• 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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