Mercedes was a panelist at the annual Social Justice Tribunals Ontario Professional Development Institute. This is an annual SJTO professional development event for the approximately 200 members of the SJTO tribunals. Mercedes spoke at a workshop titled “Accessibility, Capacity & Opportunity to be Heard”. […]
Tag: Professional Responsibility
Along with Suzan Fraser of Fraser Advocacy, Kelley represented the Mental Health Legal Committee in an intervention before the Court of Appeal for Ontario. The case addressed, in part, the duty of fairness owed by the Ontario Review Board to accused persons. In particular, the Court accepted that the Board should disclose to an NCR accused […]
Alex presented to fellow lawyers, alongside Nimali Gamage of Goddard Gamage Stephens LLP, on effective advocacy for the elderly at the Osgoode Professional Development Certificate in Elder Law Program. […]
Mercedes was a faculty member teaching lawyers and health care professionals enrolled in the 2015 Osgoode Professional Development Mental Health Law certificate program. Mercedes presented on the topic of “The Client’s Perspective: Client-Instructed Advocacy”. […]
Alex returned to speak to University of Windsor Law students on professional ethics in the practice of mental health law. […]
Kelley co-authored, with Tess Sheldon of ARCH Disability Law Centre, a paper entitled “There Ought to Be Rules”, on administrative law rules. Ms. Sheldon presented the paper at the Law Society of Upper Canada, Continuing Professional Development conference, Administrative Law Practice Basics 2014. Read The Paper […]
Alex, filling in for lawyer Anita Szigeti, spoke at the Osgoode Professional Development Continued Legal Education Program on Advising the Elderly Client, on the topic of key issues to address when serving the elderly client. […]
Alex returned to Windsor Law to lecture on legal professional ethics at the Mental Health and the Law course. […]
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 […]