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. […]
Tag: Civil Rights
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 […]
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 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. […]
Alex participated in Osgoode Hall Law School‘s Mental Health Awareness Week, for the speakers panel: Critically exploring the implications of law on mental health. Alex discussed the intersection of the law and mental health from a practicing lawyer’s perspective. […]
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 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 […]
Alex was invited to speak on the topic of legal professional ethics at Windsor Law’s Mental Health and the Law course. […]
As part of Osgoode Hall Law School’s Mental Health Awareness Week, Kelley participated in a panel discussion with Dean Lorne Sossin and Justice Richard Schneider. They debated ideas on the topic of “The Future of Mental Health Law and Justice.” […]