Looking ahead at the next few months, it was time to update the CV from last fall just to document what has been happening and what’s to come.

Anita Szigeti CV – February 2025

WiCCD Celebrated our 3rd Birthday with a wonderful fire-side chat with Justice Jill R. Presser of the Superior Court of Justice (Toronto). A truly memorable event empowering and reinvigorating our members.

Being one of the organizers of the Court of Appeal for Ontario’s Rosenberg Mentorship Moot is a labour-intensive, time-consuming period of actually pure joy. All made for a perfect experience because of the women I get to work with who are just astounding. Nothing but collaboration, mutual admiration, support, empowerment, collegiality and team work leading to a stellar event. That culminated in moot day on Jan 25, 2025 but of course had been in the works since last summer.

From L to R: Me, Dena Bonnet, and Anna Trbovich –– Image by the Incomparable VITA COOPER

Next up at the end of this month in February, Ruby Dhand and I reprise our role as co-Directors of the Mental Health Law intensive elective within the Professional Health Law LLM at Osgoode PD.

And finally, April will end with the FIRST EVER LAMDA / WiCCD Mental Disorder and the Criminal Law Conference co-Chaired by Justice Jill. R. Presser, Dena Bonnet, and me. THAT is going to be something else. Already sold out in person and nearing a sell-out virtual capacity, 700 attendees is not out of the question. Couldn’t be more pleased with how all that is coming along, one step at a time!

Here is what’s new on the CV as a result of all of this, for now, again, one day at a time, and so fun!

• PRESENTATIONS / SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS (2015-2025)

Just what’s new since my last update to this Blog as of mid-November 2025

• Conference Co-Chair, First WiCCD and LAMDA Mental Disorder in the Criminal Law Conference, Women in Canadian Criminal Defence (WiCCD) and Law and Mental Disorder Association (LAMDA), Toronto Metropolitan University (hybrid format), April 26, 2025
• Guest Lecturer, “Forensic Mental Health Systems: Unfitness, NCR and the Ontario Review Board,” Mental Health and the Law Course, University of Toronto, April 1, 2025
• Speaker, “Assessing, Documenting and Challenging Capacity” and Mock CCB Hearing, Certificate Program in Health Law, Osgoode Professional Development, on Zoom, March 25, 2025
• Practitioner Moot Coach, Callaghan Moot, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, February, 2025
• Program Co-Director Mental Health Intensive, with Dr. Ruby Dhand, Osgoode Professional Development Company, February 20-22, 2025
• Organizing Committee Member, “Court of Appeal for Ontario’s Rosenberg Mentorship Moot”, Court of Appeal for Ontario, January 25, 2025
• Organizer and Moderator, “Keynote Address to Celebrate WiCCD’s Third Anniversary by Justice Jill R. Presser”, hosted by Women in Canadian Criminal Defence, virtual, January 16, 2025
• Guest Lecturer, “Involuntary Committal and Forced Treatment: History of the Legal Framework of Coercion in Psychiatric Care,” Mental Health and the Law Course, University of Toronto, February 11, 2025 
• Panelist, “Who Cares? Episode #37 About WiCCD – the 3^rd Anniversary Update Edition”, Women in Canadian Criminal Defence (WiCCD) YouTube Educational Series, Recorded January 13, 2025, airing January 19, 2025 
• Panelist, “Who Cares? Episode #36 About the Abdi Inquest with Lawrence Greenspon, Rick Frank and Anita Szigeti”, Women in Canadian Criminal Defence (WiCCD) YouTube Educational Series, Recorded December 21, airing December 22, 2024

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