Christie Blatchford - Life Sentence: 4 Decades of Court Reportin torrent

Life Sentence: Stories from Four Decades of Court Reporting - or, How I Fell Out of Love with the Canadian Justice System
by Christie Blatchford

384 pages
Publisher: Anchor Canada (Nov. 28 2017)

Retail epub


A beloved crime reporter revisits some of her biggest assignments and passes judgement on our judicial system--especially its judges.

Christie Blatchford 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 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.



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