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What It Means to Be “Unfit to Stand Trial”

From: The Death of a Butterfly

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Chapter 4 explores what it means to be "unfit to stand trial", and the rules around the making of a treatment order. The treatment order is for the involuntary treatment of an accused who has been found unfit to stand trial. This typically involves the involuntary injection or ingestion of anti-psychotic medications.

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Richard D. Schneider

Hon. Richard D. Schneider, PhD, LLM, CPsych, is a justice of the Ontario Court of Justice, a deputy judge of the Territorial Court of the Yukon, chair of the Ontario Review Board, and an alternate chair of the Nunavut Review Board. He is also an adjunct professor in the faculties of law and medicine at the University of Toronto. Prior to his appointment to the bench, Justice Schneider was a criminal defence lawyer, a clinical psychologist, and counsel to the Ontario Review Board. He has published extensively in the area of mental disorder and the law.