Civil Procedure, Political Science, Lyman Poore Duff, Biographies, Canadian Biographies, Judges 

"Sir Lyman Poore Duff spent forty years in high judicial office, the last eleven of them at the pinnacle of his career as Canada's chief justice. He was the most distinguished jurist the country has produced. This is his first biography. As a lawyer, Duff was among Canada's council for the Alaska Boundary Tribunal of 1903. As a royal commissioner and interim head of state several times over, he directly influenced the country's public life. On the bench of the Supreme Court, he delivered the constitutional decisions that are the chief source of his renown; and in one of the last of these, which made that body the court of final appeal for Canadians, he gave his homeland an essential element of nationhood.
Judges, even ones who tower above their contemporaries, are also men and women. This is a personal account of a man who claimed impartiality but was not always able to submerge his strong political loyalties, a friend and confidant of prime ministers who occupied an often lonely corner in Ottawa life." - Cover 

Content:
1. "I am all bully" -- 2. Undergraduate -- 3. Junior counsel -- 4. Learned in the law -- 5. Senior counsel -- 6. Junior judge -- 7. First Ottawa years -- 8. Public figure -- 9. Privy councillor -- 10. The years of disappointment -- 11. The bitter years -- 12. Chief Justice at last -- 13. Sir Lyman Poore Duff -- 14. At the pinnacle -- 15. The old order changes -- 16. Unhappy warrior -- 17. Last judgement -- 18. The Hong Kong cover-up -- 19. Nightfall -- Epilogue. 

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-285) and index.