On December 11, 2017, Alex is speaking at Osgoode Professional Development’s Legal Guide to Consent, Capacity & Substitute Decision Making program to provide an overview of the the Substitute Decisions Act, 1992 alongside Heather Mountford of Goddard Gamage LLP. The program attendees included lawyers, health practitioners and care facility administrators. […]
Tag: Speaking and Teaching
Alex Procope joins Jane Meadus from the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly, as co-director of the 2018 Osgoode Certificate in Elder Law Program. This 5-day intensive seminar program put on by Osgoode Professional Development was specifically designed by and for legal and health care experts to bring clarity to this complex area. More information about the […]
On September 15, 2017, Kelley Bryan, along with Lucas Lung of Lerners LLP, will speak on the topic of providing accessible justice while maintaining a profitable law practice at a Continuing Professional Development program for lawyers and paralegals. Full details of the program can be found online here. […]
Mercedes Perez was interviewed by the Lawyered podcast on three recent and important developments in mental health law: a constitutional challenge to Ontario’s community treatment order regime; the Charter jurisdiction of the Ontario Review Board; and long-term psychiatric detention under Ontario’s Mental Health Act following the Court of Appeal’s decision in P.S. v. Ontario. Lawyered […]
Alex will be speaking at Osgoode Professional Development’s 2017 Legal Guide to Consent, Capacity & Substitute Decision Making program to provide an overview of the the Substitute Decisions Act, 1992 alongside Kaylie Handler of Goddard Gamage Stephens LLP. The program attendees included lawyers, health practitioners and care facility administrators. […]
On November 25, 2016 Alex was invited to teach professional responsibility and mental health at the Windsor Law Mental Health and the Law course. Topics included capacity to instruct counsel, confidentiality, duty of loyalty, disability accommodation and the difference between best interests and client interests. […]
Alex spoke as part of the African Canadians and the Law speakers’s panel with Asha James, Anthony Morgan, Dr. Barrington Walker and Wayne van der Meide at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law. […]
Mercedes was part of a teaching panel in the training program for students at Parkdale Community Legal Services. Mercedes spoke about capacity to instruct counsel and representing clients with mental health disabilities. […]
As a part of the Law Commission of Ontario’s Project on Improving the Last Stages of Life, Alex, along with lawyers Ryan Fritsch and D’Arcy Hiltz, co-facilitated a roundtable on legal ethics and practice for the end of life. The roundtable brought together legal professionals from various backgrounds to discuss the practice issues they face […]
Alex spoke on panels at Osgoode Professional Development’s 2016 Legal Guide to Consent, Capacity & Substitute Decision Making to provide an overview of the the Substitute Decisions Act, 1992. The program attendees included lawyers, health practitioners and care facility administrators. […]