This episode is a panel discussion with Anita Szigeti of Anita Szigeti Advocates, a Toronto firm that focuses on mental health and the law; Hamna Anwar, a criminal lawyer at Lindsay Law in Toronto; and Kyla Lee, who specializes in impaired driving cases at Acumen Law in Vancouver. They are all members of Women in Canadian Criminal Defence (WiCCD), an organization Szigeti founded to support and advocate for female and gender-non-conforming criminal defence lawyers.
Verdicts & Voices is a legal current affairs podcast presented by the Canadian Bar Association. With her retinue of expert guests, host Alison Crawford keeps listeners up to date on news, views, and stories about the law and the justice system in Canada.
“…as somebody who works really hard and tries to do a good job for my clients, the idea that I’ll seemingly never claw my way out of misogyny is very depressing.”
“(Through the membership of WiCCD) I get this sense of community… this place where we can lift each other up… It’s a very warm, welcoming network of women… It’s also a braintrust of some of the smartest criminal defence lawyers out there…”
