Aggressive in Pursuit: The Life of Justice Emmett Hall FROM THE PUBLISHER
"Few people have had a greater impact on the lives of Canadians than the late Supreme Court justice Emmett Hall. At the forefront of several important judgments in the 1960s and 1970s - such as Truscott and Calder - Hall is perhaps best known for his role in the adoption of universal health care at the federal level in 1968. Based on extensive interviews with Hall and people who knew him, Frederick Vaughan's Aggressive in Pursuit tells Hall's story." Born in Quebec in 1898 and raised in Saskatchewan, Hall had a long and distinguished career in the law. Aggressive in Pursuit traces Hall's career from his earliest days as a lawyer in Saskatchewan to the end of his life in 1995. A forceful advocate in private practice, on the bench, and as a royal commissioner and mediator, Hall made an extraordinary contribution to the judicial history of Canada.
SYNOPSIS
Vaughan (emeritus political science, U. of Guelph) offers a judicial biography of Supreme Court of Canada judge Hall (1898-1995), focusing on his career as defense lawyer and civil litigator; his position as a civil-libertarian judge and advocate of the rights of minority groups; and his work on a series of royal commissions, most significantly the Royal Commission on Health Services. He was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1963 by John Diefenbaker. This is the fourth biography of a Supreme Court judge produced by The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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