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Dean Walker  \nCOURTROOMS ARE USUALLY DREARY PLACES.The lawyers talkto the judge and the spectators can't hear what is said.If they do hearand react to what they hear,the judge sternly suppresses them.Courtofficials bear looks of permanent boredom and recite the tradition-laden words they have to say with as little feeling and as little sense asthey can muster.Witnesses mumble incoherently and tell incomprehen-sible stories.Judge and lawyers withdraw completely from the stage todiscuss abstruse points of law and procedure.And,in most Canadiancourtrooms,a general miasma of stale air and old dust permeates thephysical surroundings.  \nAnd yet,in spite of everything,the drama is there.Problems aresolved.Justice is done.Society is served.And man's relationship to manis illuminated through the resolution of verbal conflict.  \nTH:why true crime stories are always fascinating,why courtroomnaru\";ve,in the hands of capable narrators,is always absorbing.  \nIn Verdict!two thoroughly competent writers --John Kettle andDean Walker -have selected eleven \"revealing\"Canadian trials andhave set them forth on paper for our pleasure and edification.  \nKettle and Walker have stayed in this century,almost with only three ex-ceptions,in this decade.And each chapter follows a consistent patternof reporting a trial with just enough background information to makethe events of the courtroom comprehensible.But their actual selectionof trials is wide-ranging,rich and fascinating.They go from the ugly,grisly story of the Wayne Ford murder case to the comic-opera farce ofthe Montreal obscenity proceedings against the bare-breasted Ballet Af-ricains.They embrace the embarrassing tangle of the Hal Banks affairand the murder trial of a young Eskimo in the Legion Hall in CambridgeBay before Justice Jack Sissons.  \nEach chapter is fascinating in its own right,especially because Kettleand Walker bring to each their own worldly-wise but humane and oftenamused viewpoints and also because they enrich each narrative with comments on and explanations of the principles of justice involved.  \nWalker and Kettle have a great eye for illuminating and entertainingdetail.They chose their cases and wrote their book after \"readingthousands of pages of transcripts and other court records,\"and in theprocess they sorted through a great deal of dross to find the nuggetsthat appear on almost every page of this book.They pounce with de-light on the better bits and bring them forward for our pleasure.  \nHere,for example,are the musings of Jack Sissons in the murdertrial of Jimmy Ayalik in which the question of whether the Eskimo2 was drunk loomed large:\"I was just thinking back to this intoxication.I  \nhad a case of a charge at Whitehorsein the Yukon a couple of years ago,and the question was whether a cert-ain party was intoxicated or not.Thewitness said,'Well,he may have beenintoxicated,but he most certainlywas not Yukon drunk'”.  \nAnd,on a more elevated level,lis-ten to the words of the late JusticeRand who was one of the SupremeCourt judges who freed the JehovahWitnesses from the restraints thathad been placed on them by a Que-bec City by-law forbidding the dis-tribution of literature without apolice permit:\"What is proposed be-fore us is that a newspaper,just as areligious,political,or other trace orhandbill,for the purposes of sale ordistribution through use of thestreets,can be placed under the un-controlled discretion of a municipalofficer...A more objectionableinterference,short of complete sup-pression,with that disseminationwhich is the 'breath oflife'of thepolitical institutions of this countrythan that made possible by the bylawcan scarcely be imagined.”  \nKettle and Walker,although theirbook is full of the absurdities ofhuman behaviour as revealed in thecourts,nevertheless conclude on avery reassuring note.\"No doubt allsorts of things are wrong with theCanadian system of 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Eleven Revealing Canadian Trials\n## Overview of the courtroom drama and reporting approach\n## Trial highlights and commentary\n## Conclusion on the justice system\n# Contents\n## The Boy Who Killed His Mother - Wayne Ford Trial (1967)\n## The Law Against Sex - African Ballet and Fanny Hill Trials (1967 and 1964)\n## The Religious Furies - Doukhobor Conspiracy Hearing (1962)\n## The Tough Solution - Hal Banks Assault Trial (1964)\n## The Last of the 701 - Lucas and Turpin Trials (1962)\n## The Secrets of a Celebrity - Grey Owl Estate Suit (1939)\n## The Right to Be Offensive - Jehovah's Witness Appeal (1952)\n## The Wicked Woman - Evelyn Dick Trials (1946)\n## The Sea-Ice Murder - Jimmy Ayalik Trial (1940)\n## An Alternate Selection - Canadian Real Estate: How to Make It Pay","[{\"question\":\"What is Verdict! and what does it focus on?\",\"answer\":\"Verdict! is a curated book presenting eleven “revealing” Canadian trials. 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