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Searching for Justice – An Autobiography
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Searching for Justice – An Autobiography Hardcover - 2005

by Fred Kaufman

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Univ of Toronto Pr, 2005. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 320 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.50 inches.
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  • Title Searching for Justice – An Autobiography
  • Author Fred Kaufman
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Univ of Toronto Pr, Toronto
  • Date 2005
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1-0802090516
  • ISBN 9780802090515 / 0802090516
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Canadiana
  • Library of Congress subjects Kaufman, Fred, Governmental investigations - Canada
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006273578
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

From the publisher

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.

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In my living room in Toronto hang two old Viennese etchings.

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  • Quill & Quire, 11/01/2009, Page 28
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2006, Page 210