Our Lawyers:
Janice E. BLACKBURN
Admitted to Bar, 1984, Ontario
Janice is a partner with over 23 years experience in the mental health and forensic psychiatric fields since 1986. Acting as counsel to hospitals and health professionals, Janice appears before administrative tribunals in the health field including Coroner’s Inquests, the Consent and Capacity Board and the Ontario Review Board; at all levels of appellate courts including the Court of Appeal for Ontario and the Supreme Court of Canada and at various professional Colleges. She has been an Assistant Director of the Branch of the Ministry of Health which directly operated the then 10 provincially-operated psychiatric hospitals and acted as counsel to those hospitals as both counsel attached to the Attorney General and in her subsequent private practice.
A frequent writer and lecturer, Janice teaches post-graduate trainees in forensic psychiatry at McMaster University, lectures at the University of Toronto Medical School, Queen's University Law School and Osgoode Hall Law School, and trains Assistant Crown Attorneys to act at Ontario Review Board hearings. Janice also provides advice and in-house seminars to health care institutions on a variety of legal and practical issues.
jblackburn@lexcanada.com (416) 982-3806
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