Mercedes and lawyer Marshall Swadron successfully argued that costs should be awarded in an unsuccessful public interest constitutional challenge. Costs in the amount of $100,000 were awarded to the Empowerment Council in its Charter challenge to the Box B and community treatment order provisions in Ontario’s Mental Health Act. This was a notable accomplishment given […]
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Mercedes was a guest speaker at an Ontario Bar Association conference titled “The Other Side of the Coin: Personal Care and the Estate Lawyer”. Mercedes spoke on “When Matters Get Complicated: Litigating Personal Care Disputes” with lawyer D’Arcy Hiltz. Read the program agenda here. […]
Alex presented a case commentary on a challenging guardianship dispute at the Ontario Bar Association Trusts and Estates program: De-Escalating the Family Feud. […]
Mercedes was co-counsel to 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’s decision. […]
Alex spoke on carrying a case from retainer to hearing, at the Law Society of Upper Canada’s program on Administrative Law Practice Essentials 2013. […]
Alex was successful in seeking the removal of counsel appointed for an incapable person in an end-of-life case at the Consent and Capacity Board. The lawyer, who was appointed for a non-communicating senior, had put forward a personal opinion on the issues in dispute. The Board agreed that it was inappropriate to take a position […]
Mercedes successfully represented the three children of an elderly Orthodox Jewish woman in a coma at the Baycrest Hospital in a challenge to her power of attorney for personal care document. The woman had appointed her three children as her attorneys for personal care. The power of attorney document was boilerplate and contained an “end […]
At the Law Union’s annual conference, Kelley Bryan spoke, along with co-panelists Anita Szigeti, Sarah Shartal and Katalin Kirec, on the topic of “Mental Health and Justice.” She presented from the perspective of a lawyer representing clients in the civil psychiatric committal system. […]
Alex presented his paper “Attorneys for personal care and the Consent and Capacity Board” and discussed end of life clauses at the 2013 Law Society program: The Annotated Power of Attorney for Personal Care 2013. […]
Alex represented a client with a physical disability in a human rights case against the Toronto police. His client claimed that police officers pushed him out of his wheelchair at a restaurant and left him on the ground, preventing others from assisting him during the execution of a search warrant. See The Full Star Article […]