Mercedes Perez speaks at Canadian Bar Association professional development program


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 provisions in Ontario’s Mental Health Act.  Read the Superior Court and Court of Appeal decisions here.