Life sentence : stories from four decades of court reporting - or, how I fell out of love with the Canadian justice system / Christie Blatchford.
Material type: TextPublisher: Toronto : Doubleday Canada, 2016Description: 384 pages 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780385667975
- 0385667973
- 347.71/014 23
- Issued also in electronic format.
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BOOK | Meaford Public Library Non-Fiction | Non-fiction | 347 .71 Blatc (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 13347 |
Browsing Meaford Public Library shelves, Shelving location: Non-Fiction, Collection: Non-fiction Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
346 .7105 Wark The essential Canadian guide to estate planning : a journey towards peace of mind / | 346 .71054 Carte Write your legal will in 3 easy steps / | 346 .713 0434 0263 Ontar Ontario landlord and tenant legislation. | 347 .71 Blatc Life sentence : stories from four decades of court reporting - or, how I fell out of love with the Canadian justice system / | 352. 23 Cuff Mayor, The | 355 .007 Armst The stone frigate : the Royal Military College's first female cadet speaks out / | 355 .009 Mitic Everyday heroes : inspirational stories from men and women in the Canadian Armed Forces / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A beloved crime reporter revisits some of her biggest assignments and passes judgement on our judicial system and especially its judges. When Christie Blatchford wandered into a Toronto courtroom in 1978 for the start of the first criminal trial she would cover as a newspaper reporter, little did she know she was also at the start of a self-imposed life sentence. She has been reporting from Canadian courtrooms for the Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail and the National Post ever since. Back in '78, she loved the courts, lawyers and judges, and that persisted for many years. But slowly, surely, she suffered a loss of faith. What happened? It was at the recent Mike Duffy trial she had the epiphany: That judges are the new senators, unelected, unaccountable and overly entitled. Yet unlike senators, they continue to get away with it because any questioning by government or its agents is deemed an intrusion onto judicial independence. In her explosive new book, Christie Blatchford revisits trials from throughout her career and asks the hard questions--about judges playing with the truth--through editing of criminal records, whitewashing of criminal records, pre-trial rulings that kick out evidence the jury can't hear. She discusses bad or troubled judges--how and why they get picked, and what can be done about them. And shows how judges are handmaidens to the state, as in the Bernardo trial when a small-town lawyer and an intellectual writer were pursued with more vigor than Karla Homolka. For anyone interested in the political and judicial fabric of this country, Life Sentence is a remarkable, argumentative, insightful and hugely important book."-- Provided by publisher.
Issued also in electronic format.
There are no comments on this title.