Justice Defiled: Perverts, Potheads, Serial Killers & Lawyers

Young, Alan N.

ISBN 10: 1552632253 / ISBN 13: 9781552632253

Published by Key Porter Books Limited, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2003

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Very good condition. Light wear. Binding tight, pages clean. Dust jacket in very good condition. Pictures available upon request.? AP.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Justice Defiled: Perverts, Potheads, Serial Killers & Lawyers
• Publisher: Key Porter Books Limited, Toronto, ON, Canada
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1552632253
• ISBN 13: 9781552632253
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Non-Fiction

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Synopsis

Justice Defiled storms the gates of the criminal justice system to reveal hard truths about the legal community and whom it ultimately serves Justice Defiled confronts the hypocrisy of Canada’s criminal justice system, and Alan Young, a criminal lawyer with 18 years of experience and a professor of Law at Osgoode Hall, calls for change and compassion in a system rife with failures and abuses. Justice is not blind; it is a blunt instrument wielded by the powerful and the elite. Young has vast experience challenging the constitutionality of gambling laws, obscenity laws and drug laws, and knows firsthand the hypocritical nature of Canada’s criminal justice system. He charges lawyers and judges with greed, rudeness, and apathy, and Canada’s constitution with prejudice and archaism. He believes today’s criminal justice system reflects the skewed and contradictory beliefs of an unforgiving society. His high profile cases—which include defending Terry Jean Bedford, the Bondage Bungalow Dominatrix, and challenging for the first time in Canadian history the prohibition of cannabis—lend weight and intrigue to his text. Armed with a clear and controversial message, an unwavering belief in change and a highly irreverent tone, Justice Defiled looks to shake up a system that has been static in its discrimination and rampant in its abuse for far too long.(September 2003)