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Canada's Courts: A Social Scientist's Ground-Breaking Account of the Canadian Judicial SystemPeter McCormick Toronto: James Lorimer & Company, 1994. 222 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2014

Roy B. Flemming
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University

Abstract

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Copyright © Canadian Law and Society Association 1995

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