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Anita’s 2023 Year-End Wrap-Up – Part I: the Bad Stuff — Lots of Agitating Leads to Lots of Agitation, No Real Results

Posted on January 7, 2024 by Anita Szigeti

Just a touch late in doing these updates – because a lot of truly AWFUL things happened this past year. SO MUCH BAD STUFF 2023 was remarkable around the world for atrocities and horrors the likes of which I had … Continue reading →

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Anita’s 2023 Year-End Recap, Part II: The Good News Story is All about Publishing and Teaching this Year

Posted on January 6, 2024 by Anita Szigeti

SOME CAUSE FOR OPTIMISM – HOPEFUL TIMES AHEAD IN VARIOUS AREAS TEACHING On the UPSIDE, I taught a LOT of Law this year and began my tenure as co-Director of the Mental Health Law course in Osgoode PD’s Health Law … Continue reading →

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Anita and Jennifer Present: A History and Future of Legal and Peer Advocacy in the Forensic System in Ontario – HJSCC November 15, 2023

Posted on January 3, 2024 by Anita Szigeti

Bit late in doing a recap on this presentation I did with the incomparable Jennifer Chambers for the Human Justice Services Coordinating Committee (that’s a mouthful, isn’t it??!!) – or HJSCC as it is more colloquially known…….on November 15 2023. … Continue reading →

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WiCCD’s YouTube Channel wins A CLAWBIE 2023!

Posted on January 1, 2024 by Anita Szigeti

On New Year’s Eve, we got some fabulous and happy news – a total surprise, but a wonderful one! We were so excited to learn that Women in Canadian Criminal Defence has won a very coveted award for Canadian Legal … Continue reading →

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We’ve Moved and Got a little micro-website as a lagniappe

Posted on December 29, 2023 by Anita Szigeti

Now maintaining our virtual office with Wolf Law Chambers and they gave us this cute little website.

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HALSBURY’S 2023 RE-ISSUE NOW OUT IN PRINT

Posted on December 28, 2023 by Anita Szigeti

COOL TO SEE – THIS WAS BOOK #2 INITIALLY WHEN IT WAS FIRST PUBLISHED I THINK IN 2011 (Could be wrong – might have been earlier) – it followed the CCB Guide (first published 2005) It’s only re-issued every 4th … Continue reading →

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HOMICIDE VERDICT: The Soleiman Faqiri Inquest Nov 20 — Dec 12 2023

Posted on December 9, 2023 by Anita Szigeti

Verdict and Recommendations Released On December 12, 2023 The Coroner’s Jury in the Faqiri Inquest returned a Verdict of Homicide 57 Recommendations include Oversight by a Correctional Inspectorate, An Independent Advocate, Mental Health Courts re-imagined, Funded Special Beds for Mental … Continue reading →

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New Content Released on my CV November 18 2023

Posted on November 18, 2023 by Anita Szigeti

Every once in a while, I do update my Resume even though there is no job in the world that I would apply for and am not ever thinking of applying for the Bench, which is where 99% of those … Continue reading →

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Lawyers Behaving Badly

Posted on November 6, 2023 by Anita Szigeti

The tone and substance of lawyers’ communications on Israel-Palestine has become an embarrassment to the profession and gone way past anything seen before or that could or should be countenanced by our governing body. What is happening now completely substantiates … Continue reading →

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Silence is Complicit — Lawyer associations, organizations abandon members – Opinion Piece – Law360 Oct 31 2023

Posted on October 31, 2023 by Anita Szigeti

I appreciate this is taking a risk in that there will be dissent around it. That said, I have been deeply troubled, as are many, by the silence of some leading lawyer groups / whether associations, organizations or societies etc … Continue reading →

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