New Content Released on My CV – May 2025

Posted on May 30, 2025 by Anita Szigeti

It has been a busy few months since our last update, with teaching and publishing in high gear over the spring months.

Tulip season this year was just kind of sad, I’m crushed to say, but there were still some bright spots this spring. As always, try to remember to smell ALL the flowers!

Current Long Form CV now available here

Anita Szigeti Curriculum Vitae – Current – Versions

JUST SOME NEW HIGHLIGHTS IN THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS

ARTICLES

  • “Event Redux” (May 6, 2025) Inaugural Issue, Online Net Letter, “The WiCCD Brew”, Women in Canadian Criminal Defence (WiCCD)
  • “Rehabilitating the Forensic Psychiatric System” (May 2025) Volume 47, No 4, Health Care Quarterly, Longwoods

OPINION / COMMENTARY

  • “Common pitfalls in tribunal adjudication of mental health matters, Part Two: Potential solutions” Law360, May 29, 2025
  • Pitfalls in tribunal adjudication of mental health matters: Issues identified by reviewing courts – Part One – Law360, May 28, 2025
  • “Release of the O’Connor Report is a Good Start, But There’s a Long Way To Go” Law360, March 28, 2025

“Lawyer Organizations Must Meet This Moment” Law360, March 26, 2025

  • PRESENTATIONS / SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS (2015-2025)
  • Speaker, “Mental Health In Our Courts”, Criminal Lawyers’ Association (CLA), Brampton Courthouse, October 8, 2025
  • Speaker, “Advancing Mental Health Law Through Litigation”, Contemporary Challenges in Canadian Mental Health Law and Policy, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, October 2-3, 2025
  • Guest Lecturer, “Representing NCR and unfit accused at the Ontario Review Board and on Appeals” Mental Health and the Criminal Law Intensive LLM Course, Osgoode Professional Development, May 2, 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
  • Panelist, “Upcoming Mental Health Law Resources”, Women in Canadian Criminal Defence (WiCCD) YouTube “WiCCD Presents” Series, Recorded April 17, 2025, airing April 19, 2025
  • Guest Lecturer, Law and Business Clinic, “Mental Health and Poverty”, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), April 9, 2025
  • Guest Teacher, Harbord Collegiate Institute, LAWS Grade 11 Program, “Mental Disorder and The Criminal Law: Fitness, NCR, Automatism and Self-induced Extreme Intoxication, Sentencing” April 8, 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 Mock Trial Coach, Ontario Mock Trial Association, University of Toronto, March 8, 2025
  • Steering Committee Member, “The State of Public Interest Intervention in Canada,” Asper Centre Intervener Symposium, University of Toronto, March 7, 2025
  • Program Co-Director Mental Health Intensive, with Dr. Ruby Dhand, Osgoode Professional Development Company, February 20-22, 2025
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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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