Indigenous Justice True Cases by Judges, Lawyers, and law Enforcement Officers

Indigenous Justice

True Cases by Judges, Lawyers, and law Enforcement Officers

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Indigenous Justice is Book 10 in the Durvile True Cases series. In the spirit of truth and reconciliation and respectful of Indigenous cultural integrity, judges, lawyers, and law enforcement officers write about working with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Peoples through their trials and tribulations with the criminal justice system. The stories are a mix of previously published essays from the True Cases anthologies with an equal number of new chapters by legal and law enforcement professionals.  

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John Reilly

For most of his 33 years on the bench Judge John Reilly was the circuit judge for the Stoney Nakoda First Nation at Mînî Thnî (Morley), Alberta. During his career he became interested in Indigenous justice and saw the failure of the ‘white’ legal system to do justice for Indigenous Peoples. He is author of Bad Medicine: A Judge’s Struggle for Justice in a First Nations Community, Bad Judgement: the Myths of First Nations Equality, and Judicial Independence in Canada, and Bad Law: Rethinking Justice for a Postcolonial Canada.

Nancy Morrison

A lawyer, arbitrator, and judge, as well as a political activist and feminist, Nancy Morrison practiced law and adjudicated in Ontario, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Yukon, and Northwest Territories. As a judge, she served for nine years on the British Columbia Provincial Court and 15 years on the Supreme Court of British Columbia. Raised in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, she now lives in Vancouver, BC. Her memoir Benched: Passion for Law Reform was published in 2018 in the Durvile Reflections series.

Thomas R. Berger

Thomas Rodney Berger QC OC OBC was a Canadian politician and jurist. He was briefly a member of the House of Commons of Canada in the early 1960s and was a justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia from 1971 to 1983. In 1974, he became the royal commissioner of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, which released its findings in 1977. He was a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia. Justice Berger died on April 28, 2021.

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