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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Following her appointment by the Ontario Court of Appeal as amicus curiae (along with lawyer Karen Steward) in a treatment incapacity appeal, Mercedes successfully argued that the appellant had received ineffective assistance of counsel from his Consent and Capacity Board lawyer.  This was the first time that an ineffective assistance of counsel claim was advanced […]

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