Subseries 1 - Other professional activities

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These boxes contain files of other professional activities not contained in other boxes. They are more or less in chronological order.

In 1962 I co-authored a report for the Ontario Branch of the Canadian Bar Association on disciplinary procedures for professional tribunals (files 2-5).

In the early 1960s I started to do work on a book on Canadian criminal procedure. The only document surviving, however,--I recall doing a fair amount of work on the project-- is a single page on the appointment of judges (file 6). The files also contain various outlines of another book I was thinking of doing on criminal justice (file 7).

When I was in England in 1969 doing work on law reform I presented ideas to the Criminal Law Revision Committee on the subject of cross-examination on previous convictions, which led to a short article on the subject in the Canadian Bar Review (files 8 and 9).

When the FLQ crisis occurred in October 1970 I wrote an op-ed piece in the Globe and later gave a lecture at the University of Buffalo law school (files 10-12).

In the early 1970s I organised a series of lectures at the law school in which criminal lawyers talked about one of their important or interesting criminal cases. The series was taped by the Media Centre, but I don’t have the tapes in my possession, and was published by the law school in 1975 (file 13). In 1977 Butterworths decided that they wanted to have the Canadian equivalent of Halsbury’s Laws of England and I was asked to serve on the advisory board along with Robinette, Bud Estey, and others. A great deal of progress was made over the next 5 years, but it was eventually dropped for financial reasons (files 13-20).

In 1982 I gave a lecture at the annual meeting of the Royal Society in Ottawa on three criminal cases from the year 1882, the year of the founding of the Royal Society. This was published in the Transactions of the Royal Society (files 21-24).

Another project that I was involved with was a Metro Toronto Police Commission Task Force on Violence, which brought in a number of recommendations (files 25-26).

In 1988 I gave a talk at the Learneds in Windsor on the case study as a vehicle for understanding the law (files 27-29). I dealt with the case studies that I had been involved with (R.S. Wright, Lipski, Shortis, and the Rice case that I was then researching). Similar talks were given at the meeting of the American Society for Legal History in Atlanta in 1989 and at Massey College in the same year (files 30-31). The files also include other possible murder cases, including the Hyams case tried in Toronto around the turn-of-the-century (files 32-33). The material turned over to the archives do not contain my files on the south Asian murder case which I intend to complete when the U of T history project is finished.

In 1989 I became involved with a Royal Society task force dealing with the question of whether smoking is addictive. The government wanted to include addiction on tobacco labels, but the tobacco companies objected. The government asked the Royal Society for a report on the subject (files 34-38).

I gave a lecture on the development of the law relating to police powers at a symposium on policing at the University of Alberta in 1991, which was later published in a book of essays on policing (files 39-40).

In 1992 I gave the annual Viscount Bennett Lecture at the University of New Brunswick on “Canadian criminal justice 1892-1992,” on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the passage of the Canadian Criminal Code. The lecture was published in the University of New Brunswick Law Journal in 1993 (files 43-45).

The files also contain my involvement, including various talks, etc., with a number of professional organisations (files 46-55).

Correspondence with various law review is also contained in the files (files 56-58), as are a collection of selected book reviews (file 59).

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