Justice Denied: The Law Versus Donald Marshall

by Michael Harris

Book by Harris, Michael

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1986

About the author

One of Canada’s top investigative writers, Michael Terry Harris was winner of the 1995 Arthur Ellis Award for best true crime book for The Prodigal Husband: The Tragedy of Helmuth and Hannah Buxbaum. Formerly the publisher of the Sunday Express in St. John’s and later the Executive Director of News and Current Affairs for the Newfoundland Broadcasting Corporation, Harris has also been Queen’s Park correspondent for the National Post, and a national affairs columnist for the Sun News Service. Today, he host’s his own radio program, “Michael Harris Live,” on CFRA in Ottawa.

Harris’s previous books consist of the award-winners Justice Denied: The Law versus Donald Marshall (1986), Unholy Orders: Tragedy at Mount Cashel (1990), Rare Ambition: The Crosbies of Newfoundland (1992), The Prodigal Husband (1994). The Judas Kiss: The Undercover Life of Patrick Kelly (1995), was made into a television movie starring Paul Gross, and Lament for an Ocean: The Collapse of the Atlantic Cod Fishery (1998) was a national bestseller. To date, his work has sparked four royal commissions of inquiry.

Reviews

[Rob Tripp · Rating 4 out of 5]

Required reading for anyone interested in understanding how the law in Canada sometimes (often?) gets it wrong and convicts the innocent.

[Esther Eagleson · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a Canadian lawyer, this book was definitely hard to read. I know there is a lot of this kind of injustice still happening within the system but it is still hard to hear about. Obviously this book is dated, and some wording in it should be changed but all in all I think it provides a good look at the case. I also think that chapter 11 of the book should have been required reading for both my criminal law class, trial practice class, and advanced evidence class. In the way that the law treated Roy Ebsary after I saw much similarities to the Gerald Stanley of the Colton Boushie case. So if you followed that case, this book will really interest you.

[Katy Beanson]

i tjink i will enjoy it!