Kelley has joined the Refugee Sponsorship Support Program, a nation wide project in which lawyers provide assistance to groups seeking to privately sponsor refugees to Canada. She will be offering pro bono legal assistance to community organizations or groups seeking to bring refugees to this country in response to the global refugee crisis. […]
Vincent Li’s killing of Tim McLean on a Greyhound bus in July 2008 is one of the most widely-publicized crimes in recent Canadian history. Mr. Li, then a 40-year-old in an undiagnosed psychotic state, stabbed and beheaded Tim McLean, a stranger beside him on the bus. Mr. Li was found not criminally responsible on account […]
On November 25, 2016 Alex was invited to teach professional responsibility and mental health at the Windsor Law Mental Health and the Law course. Topics included capacity to instruct counsel, confidentiality, duty of loyalty, disability accommodation and the difference between best interests and client interests. […]
Alex spoke as part of the African Canadians and the Law speakers’s panel with Asha James, Anthony Morgan, Dr. Barrington Walker and Wayne van der Meide at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law. […]
Mercedes was part of a teaching panel in the training program for students at Parkdale Community Legal Services. Mercedes spoke about capacity to instruct counsel and representing clients with mental health disabilities. […]
Kelley’s client, Kofi Patrong, successfully defeated an appeal by the Toronto police, affirming his right to sue the police over a gang-related shooting that left him with a permanent disability. Mr. Patrong was a teenager standing in his back yard when he was shot by a prominent gangster in Malvern, Scarborough. At the time, he […]
As a part of the Law Commission of Ontario’s Project on Improving the Last Stages of Life, Alex, along with lawyers Ryan Fritsch and D’Arcy Hiltz, co-facilitated a roundtable on legal ethics and practice for the end of life. The roundtable brought together legal professionals from various backgrounds to discuss the practice issues they face […]
Alex spoke on panels at Osgoode Professional Development’s 2016 Legal Guide to Consent, Capacity & Substitute Decision Making to provide an overview of the the Substitute Decisions Act, 1992. The program attendees included lawyers, health practitioners and care facility administrators. […]
Kelley spoke on a panel at the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Solo and Small Firm conference, on the topic of how lawyers should approach issues relating to client capacity to instruct counsel. She provided practical tips on addressing ethical concerns of lawyers who service incapable or possibly incapable persons. Topic: Effective approaches for dealing […]
Mercedes presented at a training program for students at Parkdale Community Legal Services. Mercedes spoke about capacity to instruct counsel and representing clients with mental health disabilities. […]