Böcker av Martin L. Friedland

In this highly entertaining biography, W.P.M. Kennedy emerges as a complicated yet compelling figure in the academic and legal history of Canada.

The judicial system occupies an important place in society, yet it has been one of the least studied of Canadian institutions, traditionally left to lawyers and members of the legal profession. In this volume nine non-lawyers scrutinize its operation in Canada from the perspectives of several academic disciplines.

This study will fill an important need by documenting statistically the extent and nature of custody before trial in the Toronto Magistrates' Courts, where the overwhelming majority of citizens charged with criminal offences in the Toronto area are tried.

Martin Friedland has vividly reconstructed one of the most dramatic criminal cases in Canada's history.