About Joanna
Joanna Weiss joined WEL Partners as a lawyer in March 2024, having previously worked at boutique firms specializing in mental health litigation, estate, trust, and capacity litigation, and professional negligence. She was called to the Ontario bar in 2013 and has spent much of her career on capacity litigation and administrative law, with extensive appellate experience. For nearly a decade she focused on patient-side mental health law, regularly appearing before the Consent and Capacity Board, the Ontario Review Board, and the Superior Court of Justice, and has also argued before the Court of Appeal for Ontario and the Supreme Court of Canada. She holds an Honours BA in Philosophy from McMaster University and a JD, with a Health Law and Policy Specialization, from Dalhousie's Schulich School of Law.
Practice areas
Education & credentials
- Law school
- Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University
- Undergraduate
- Honours BA in Philosophy, McMaster University
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