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Death By Choice: Medically Assisted Dying in Canada

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Professionalism (Ethics, etc.): 0.75
50 minutes
Substantive: 1.0
55 minutes
Published
2017
Presenter(s)
Daphne Jarvis
Melanie Manchee
Simon J. W. Oczkowski
Source
Toronto Lawyers Association (TLA)
Provider
CPDOnline.ca
Language
English
Length
105 minutes
Price
$349.00 plus tax
Includes Handouts

On June 17, 2016, new federal legislation came into force creating a regulatory framework for medical assistance in dying in Canada. Legislation also came into effect in Ontario in May of this year. In this provocative program, you will be updated on the cases being considered under this legislation, and hear from a panel of experts on topics including:

  • Determining capacity in, and taking clear instructions from, a client with a late stage illness who is ready to die
  • Steps in the process and what lawyers need to know about it - from a doctor’s perspective
  • Who is the client? - potential conflicts between the dying client and surviving family
  • Self-care for lawyer and staff in new territory of providing end-of-life service to the dying client and family

Plus, walk away with a checklist of what can be done in advance of death to eliminate the need for settling an estate after death!

  • Determining capacity in a client with a late stage illness who is ready to die
  • Who is the client? - potential conflicts between the dying client and surviving Family.
  • Self-care for lawyer and staff in new territory of providing end-of-life service to the dying client and family.

Presenters

Daphne Jarvis

Daphne is a partner with Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa in 1984, and was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1986. She also has undergraduate bachelor degrees in both Philosophy and Biology from McMaster University.

Her practice concentrates on litigation and administrative law, with a particular emphasis on health law. She has acted as counsel for hospitals, children's mental health centres, nurses, physicians, and other health practitioners at inquests, courts at all levels, (including the Supreme Court of Canada) and administrative tribunals, (including the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board and the Consent and Capacity Board). Ms. Jarvis has given numerous presentations before various groups of health practitioners, and/or lawyers, including on the subject of end of life care.

Melanie Manchee

Melanie A. Manchee is a sole practitioner in Toronto. Her practice is in the areas of Family Law and Estates. She acts as a Dispute Resolution Officer in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and is currently President of the Toronto Lawyers Association.

Her past activities include presenting at and facilitating programs for the Law Society and OBA, acting as a Law Society mentor, an OBA Council and Executive Committee member, and LSUC Licensing Program instructor. She is active in the Child and Youth mental health sector and currently is a director of the Child Development Institute.

Dr. Simon J. W. Oczkowski

Dr. Simon Oczkowski is an assistant professor in the department of medicine, division of critical care, at McMaster University. He completed is MHSc in bioethics at the University of Toronto and is finishing his MSc in clinical epidemiology at McMaster.

He is a critical care physician and member of Hamilton Health Sciences' Assisted Dying Resource and Assessment Service, which was recently recognized as an Emerging Innovation by the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement. Dr. Oczkowski's clinical and research interests include end of life decision-making in the ICU; patient and family engagement; organ donation; and medical assistance.

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