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Annotated Ontario Mental Health Statutes, 5th edition, is an up-to-date, centralized source of legislation and analysis in the area of mental health for Ontario. Consolidated versions of the following legislation and related forms are included: Mental Health Act and regulations Health Care Consent Act, 1996 and regulations Substitute Decisions Act, 1992 and regulations Public Hospitals Act and regulations Personal Health Information Protection Act and regulations The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the relevant sections of the Criminal Code are also included. This edition contains the mental health provisions in Part XX.1 of the Criminal Code, which formed part of Bill C-10, proclaimed in force in 2005. Also in this edition is the Crown Practice Memorandum on the Diversion of Mentally Disordered Accused. A table of cases has also been provided. Annotations cover caselaw from Ontario, as well as other jurisdictions, through to December 2021. Caselaw annotations range in length from a few sentences to the full text of the judgment. Commentaries are practical and to the point. The format is easy to use and places the updated caselaw annotations and commentary adjacent to the legislative provisions to which they relate, following the logical organization of the statutes.

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Richard D. Schneider is a Justice of the Ontario Court of Justice, where he presides at Toronto's Mental Health Court, and alternate chair of the Ontario and Nunavut Review Boards. He is also an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and an adjunct lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. He was recently appointed honorary president of the Canadian Psychological Association. He has published extensively in the area of mental disorder and the law. Caitlin Pakosh is an assistant Crown attorney in Newmarket and an assistant professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) forensic science program, with experience researching and writing about the intersection between the forensic sciences and criminal law, most notably in her award-winning book, The Lawyer's Guide to the Forensic Sciences (Irwin Law, 2016). She is also co-author of The Annotated Ontario Mental Health Statutes, 5th ed (Irwin Law, 2022), and The 2023 Annotated Mental Health Provisions of the Criminal Code: Part XX.1 (Irwin Law, 2023), the latter of which will be updated annually. In her role as an assistant Crown attorney, Caitlin prosecutes a variety of offences and has a range of experience in adult and youth matters, including with respect to bail hearings/reviews, guilty pleas, trials, sentencing hearings, and Charter applications. Prior to joining the Ministry of the Attorney General, Caitlin spent six years as a criminal defence lawyer, opening an appellate practice after working for several years at Innocence Canada (formerly AIDWYC) as its case management counsel, then as its senior staff lawyer. At Innocence Canada, Caitlin worked exclusively on homicide cases from across Canada, provided advice to the organization's team of volunteer lawyers, and helped to organize new forensic expert opinions and private investigations.  Caitlin has appeared at the Ontario Court of Justice, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, and the Court of Appeal for Ontario. She has co-authored Federal Ministerial Review Applications and worked on cases that have been heard at the Supreme Court of Canada. Caitlin was called to the Bar in Ontario in June 2012 after receiving her law degree from the University of Calgary in 2011. She graduated from UTM's Forensic Science program in 2008, specializing in forensic anthropology with a minor in biology. Lora Patton is a Toronto lawyer, teacher, and researcher. Having worked in mental health for over a decade, Ms. Patton has previously worked as counsel in the legal aid clinic system, staff lawyer and lecturer in legal education, and as counsel to the Director of the Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office. Ms. Patton has written in the areas of health law, disability, and access to justice and social justice.

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