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 […]
Month: June 2016
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 […]