2025 Annotated Mental Health Provisions of the Criminal Code, Part XX.1

Richard D. Schneider is a justice of the Ontario Court of Justice, an adjunct professor of psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, and an adjunct professor of forensic science at the University of Toronto Mississauga.Caitlin Pakosh is an assistant Crown attorney in Newmarket, Ontario, and an assistant professor in the Department of Forensic Science at the University of Toronto Mississauga.Lora Patton is a lawyer, teacher, researcher, and former counsel to the director of the Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office in Ontario.

• 1. Section 2, Definitions2. Section 672.1(1), Definitions3. Defence of Mental Disorder: Section 164. Assessment Orders5. Assessment Reports6. Protected Statements7. Fitness to Stand Trial8. Verdict of Not Criminally Responsible on Account of Mental Disorder9. Review Boards10. Disposition Hearings11. Dispositions by a Court or Review Board12. Terms of Dispositions13. High-Risk Accused14. Dual Status Offenders15. Appeals16. Review of Dispositions17. Power to Compel Appearance18. Stay of Proceedings19. Interprovincial Transfers20. Enforcement of Orders and RegulationsAppendix A: Fitness to Stand Trial and Criminal Responsibility: An Introductory OverviewAppendix B: Criminal Code Forms Table of CasesIndex