About the author

• Author: Hy Bloom, Richard D Schneider
• Pages: 397-397

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About the Authors

Hy Bloom, LLB, MD, FRCP(C) is a forensic psychiatrist and law yer who assess-

es individuals who have mental illnesses a nd outstanding cr iminal charges.

He is a founding member of the PSILEX Group, Consultants in Behaviour-

al Sciences and the Law. He is also a part-time staf f member in the Com-

plex Mental Illness/Forensic Services Program at the Centre for Addiction

and Mental Health, an assistant professor in the Depar tment of Medicine at

the University of Toronto, an assistant clinica l professor in the Department

of Psychiatry and Behaviour al Neurosciences at McMaster University, and

adjunct faculty at University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law. Dr Bloom is both

an alternate chair person and psychiatric member of both the Ontar io and

Nunavut review boards. He was called to t he Bar of Ontario in 1980. He has

published on a number of topics in psychiatry and the law.

Hon Richard D Schneider, PhD LLM, CPsych is a justice of the Ontario

Court of Justice, a deputy judge of the Territorial Cour t of the Yukon, chair

of the Ontario Review Board, and a n 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 crimi nal defence lawyer, a clinical psychologist, and coun-

sel to the Ontario Review Boa rd. He was appointed honorary president of

the Canadian Psychological A ssociation. He has published extensively in

the area of mental disorder and the law.