Searching for justice : an autobiography / Fred Kaufman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaufman, Fred, 1924-2023, author.

Contributor:

Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.

Series:

Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kaufman, Fred, 1924-2023.

Kaufman, Fred.

Québec (Province). Court of Appeal--Biography.

Québec (Province).

Judges--Québec (Province)--Biography.

Judges.

Governmental investigations--Canada.

Governmental investigations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Honourable Fred Kaufman has been a distinguished figure in Canadian law for a half century. Born into a middle-class Jewish family in mid-1920s Vienna, Kaufman escaped to England on the eve of the Second World War. In 1940, he was interned as an 'enemy alien' and sent to Canada. Released in 1942, Kaufman stayed in Canada where he went on to university and law school in Montreal.Kaufman was called to the Bar of Quebec in 1955 and practiced criminal law for eighteen years, taking part in many of the famous cases of that period. In 1960, he secured the release of a young Pierre Elliott Trudeau from prison, and in 1973, Trudeau returned the favour by personally informing Kaufman of his appointment to the Quebec Court of Appeal, where he served for eighteen years, including one as Acting Chief Justice of Quebec. Since his retirement in 1991, Kaufman has led numerous commissions and inquiries, most notably the investigation into the wrongful conviction of Guy Paul Morin and the two-year reassessment of the Steven Truscott case.Searching for Justice is Kaufman's remarkable story in his own words. It is the tale of adversity overcome in a crucial period of Canadian legal history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Preface

1. In the Beginning

2. Safe Haven

3. Guest of His Majesty

4. Freedom Regained

5. Newspaper Days

6. The Asbestos Strike

7. Law School

8. A New Career

9. Insanity and Other Matters

10. A Future Prime Minister

11. To Be Hanged by the Neck

12. St Vincent de Paul

13. Of Heart Transplants and Other Things

14. The Tax That Wasn't

15. The Computer Riot

16. McGill Frangais

17. Apprehended Insurrection

18. The Art of Cross-Examination

19. Some Personal Notes

20. Politics

21. The Bench

22. Return to Practice

23. Guy Paul Morin

24. Nova Scotia

25. Four More Investigations

26. The Truscott Case

Epilogue

Notes

Index

Publications of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-281-99181-3

9786611991814

1-4426-7966-2

OCLC:

944177590