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. […]
Tag: Guardianship/Power of Attorney
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. […]
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 […]
Alex presented his paper “Attorneys for personal care and the Consent and Capacity Board” and discussed end of life clauses at a Law Society program: The Annotated Power of Attorney for Personal Care 2013. […]