Mercedes was interviewed by the Lawyers Weekly for an article on the topic of a client’s capacity to instruct counsel, focusing on the elder client. See The Full Story […]
Category: Media
The Globe and Mail ran an article on Mercedes’ successful constitutional challenge to Ontario’s Mental Health Act in the case of a deaf man detained in a psychiatric facility for more than two decades. Read the full story here. […]
Mercedes was quoted in a Toronto Star article detailing a “landmark” successful Charter challenge to the Mental Health Act. Mercedes represented the appellant P.S. in the precedent setting case before the Ontario Court of Appeal of a deaf man detained for almost two decades at the Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care. The Court of […]
Alex was interviewed on the topic of end-of-life decision making on More Than Money Radio on News Talk 770 in Calgary. Alex discussed the importance of powers of attorney for personal care, as well as issues families, doctors and courts face in the context of end-of-life decisions. You can listen to Alex’s segment 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 […]
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 […]
Mercedes spoke to protestors outside Toronto Police Headquarters who were demanding a full public inquiry into the deaths of mentally ill persons involved in interactions with police. The protest followed the shooting death by police of Michael Eligon who had left a psychiatric facility and was found in downtown Toronto wearing a hospital gown and […]
Mercedes was quoted by The Toronto Star in an article examining the Ontario Court of Appeal’s decision in Gligorevic v. McMaster. In this appeal, Mercedes (along with lawyer Karen Steward) successfully argued that the appellant had received ineffective assistance from his lawyer in a Consent and Capacity Board treatment incapacity matter. Read The Toronto Star […]