Venue: YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov

Halacha:

Beit Din,  Medicine 

Machshava:

Ethics 

Collections: Rabbi Torczyner Legal Ethics

References: Chagiga: 3b  

Description

Does an emotionally unstable person lack capacity for litigation if they understand the information and decisions intellectually? What are some boundary issues that come up in supporting such clients? And may one withdraw from representing such a client, because of the strain? Dealt with from the perspective of Jewish law and Ontario law.