Legal Aid Lunch and Learn Webinars on Representing Clients before the Consent and Capacity Board (2024)

Posted on April 2, 2025 by Anita Szigeti

In 2024 Legal Aid Ontario held a series of Lunch and Learn webinars regarding practice before the Consent and Capacity Board. The first three in the series are available on YouTube now with a fourth to be added soon (April 2025).

My contribution is the first session in which I appear with colleagues and friends Shira Brass and Jolene Hansell discussing the important basic process of handling a CCB File from start to finish.

Representing Clients with Matters Before the CCB. Practicing before the CCB Client Advocacy 1

We dive into specific things that all lawyers doing CCB work should know, important considerations in how to approach representation of our vulnerable clients who may be experiencing a mental health crisis at the time, the most important ethical considerations when representing vulnerable clients before the CCB plus much more.

Representing Clients with Matters Before the Consent and Capacity Board (CCB)  Webinar #1:   Practicing before the CCB – Client Advocacy  June 28th, 2024

The remaining sessions are found here:

Webinar #2:   Treatment capacity and appeals  July 17th, 2024
Webinar #3:   Involuntary admissions and community treatment orders    August 21st, 2024

Representing Clients with Matters Before the CCB – Webinar #4: Best practices before the CCB

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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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