Searching for Justice: An Autobiography (Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History) - Hardcover

Kaufman, Fred

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802090516 ISBN 13: 9780802090515

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2005

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Fred Kaufman is a former justice of the Quebec Court of Appeal.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0802090516
• ISBN 13: 9780802090515
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320