ON TRIAL

Hardback. The author has chosen to write about 3 Canadian cases that fascinated him. Geographically, they represent diversity, one case each from Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax. In legal terms, one is criminal and the other two are civil. One case centring on the well known Canadian musician and composer Hagood Hardy, offers the strange machinations of the first music-plagiarism case in Canada. Another, the Luke Elwood case, is a heart-breaker that brings the Charter of rights into compelling play. And the third, a multi-million-dollar drug case from Vancouver, is full of stuff that you may have thought turned up only on L.A. Law - a recanting witness, a gang that couldn't shoot straight, behind-the-scenes legal manipulations, and moments of low comedy. 360pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true-crime library of Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. in f. dw.