Searching for Justice : : An Autobiography / / Fred Kaufman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Kaufman, Fred,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

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.

Table of 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