Chief Justice W.R. Jackett: By the Law of the Land

by Richard W. Pound

After graduating from the University of Saskatchewan's College of Law, Jackett was chosen as a Rhodes Scholar. He returned to Canada from Oxford not long before the outbreak of World War II and joined the ten-man Department of Justice as a junior lawyer. Through extraordinary hard work, rigorous legal analysis, and a bent for organization, he eventually became Canada's eighth deputy minister of Justice. He left this position after three years to become...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773518983
• ISBN13: 9780773518988
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"