Mercedes spoke at an event on “Mental Health in the Canadian Justice System” to commemorate International Prisoners’ Justice Day. The event was organized by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and Legal Aid Ontario. The poster for the event is available here. […]
Mercedes was invited to give the keynote address at the Empowerment Council’s 2014 “Mad Hatter Tea Party”. The event took place at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto. Mercedes spoke about the Empowerment Council’s constitutional challenge to the Box B and community treatment order provisions in Ontario’s Mental Health Act. Read the Superior […]
Kelley co-authored, with Tess Sheldon of ARCH Disability Law Centre, a paper entitled “There Ought to Be Rules”, on administrative law rules. Ms. Sheldon presented the paper at the Law Society of Upper Canada, Continuing Professional Development conference, Administrative Law Practice Basics 2014. Read The Paper […]
Mercedes spoke on “Powers of Attorney for Personal Care and End of Life Issues” at the 2014 Law Society of Upper Canada’s Six-Minute Estates Lawyer conference. The program schedule is available here. […]
Alex, filling in for lawyer Anita Szigeti, spoke at the Osgoode Professional Development Continued Legal Education Program on Advising the Elderly Client, on the topic of key issues to address when serving the elderly client. […]
Mercedes Perez and lawyer Anita Szigeti represented the intervener Mental Health Legal Committee at the Supreme Court of Canada in a case that considered the Superior Court’s jurisdiction to appoint amicus curiae and to fix the amicus’ rate of renumeration. Read the Supreme Court’s decision in Ontario v. Criminal Lawyers’ Association of Ontario here. […]
Mercedes was co-counsel to the interveners Mental Health Legal Committee and the HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario in a life support case heard by the Supreme Court of Canada. In Cuthbertson v. Rasouli, a majority of the Supreme Court agreed that end of life treatment decisions require consent and life support cannot be terminated […]
Mercedes spoke at a Canadian Bar Association professional development program with lawyers Lonny Rosen and Valerie Wise. The program was titled “Civil Commitment under the Mental Health Act: Does ‘Brian’s Law’ Go too Far?”. Mercedes spoke about her work representing the applicants in a constitutional challenge to the Box B and community treatment order […]
Alex returned to Windsor Law to lecture on legal professional ethics at the Mental Health and the Law course. […]
Mercedes was a guest panelist at the annual Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners Canada (STEP) conference titled “Powers of Attorney for Personal Care and Advanced Planning”. Mercedes’ talk was focused on litigating personal care disputes arising from powers of attorney for personal care. […]