WiCCD Closes Out Our 3rd Beautiful Year – 2024 Update – WiCCD by the Numbers Jan 4 2025

Posted on January 4, 2025 by Anita Szigeti

Hard to believe but WiCCD is turning 3 today – on Jan 4, 2025 – just 3 years old but punching so much above our weight here.

For a relatively recent update, see my blog here:

I’m officially the WiCCDest Woman Ever – Anita receives WiCCD’s One of a Kind Award for 2024

But as for today

WiCCD By the Numbers and More as of Jan 4 2025

Age: 3.0 years

Members: 600+

Region: National – every province and territory is represented in our membership

Awards Received: One – CLAWBIE 2023 Recipient for Best YouTube Channel

Awards Given Out: NINE – Three WiCCD Women (Roots Ghadia, Erin Dann and Genevieve Eliany); Three WiCCD Allies (John Struthers, Marco Sciarra and Nader Hasan), One Administration of Justice Award (Justice Brock Jones), One WiCCD Wonder (Maya Shukairy) and The WiCCDest Woman (Anita Szigeti)

Videos Available on our YouTube Channel: 123 – all hosted by the stellar Maya Shukairy

Subscribers to our YouTube Channel: 462

Videos with more than 1000 views – (a YouTube Benchmark for success): FIVE

Twitter Followers: 1300

CPD: dozens of programs hosted online and now in hybrid format – ALL FREE

Listserv: collegial, supportive, busy, beloved, legendary

Leadership: Nine exceptional women on our volunteer Executive

Administration: Ten volunteer law students or new lawyers run our list, membership & social media

Keynote Anniversary Addresses by SCC Justices: two

Hybrid Conferences Held: Two

Bail Conference Attendees: 380

Collaboration with other Organizations: Several – WiCCD is a partner of the Ontario Court of Appeal in organizing the prestigious Rosenberg Mentorship Moot, partners with Women’s Legal Mentorship Program to host speed mentoring sessions, is a Member Organization of RODA, the Roundtable of Diversity Associations, and has been regularly invited to make submissions on important issues to the Law Society of Ontario (LSO) and Legal Aid Ontario (LAO), among others.

Love to All

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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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