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Law Ethics & Professional Responsibility

The Prosecutor

An Inquiry into the Exercise of Discretion

by (author) Brian A. Grosman

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Dec 1978
Category
Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Legal Profession, Criminology
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487597955
    Publish Date
    Dec 1978
    List Price
    $15.95

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Every day decisions made by prosecutors, before trial takes place, critically affect the rights of citizens; yet these decisions remain a grey area in the administration of criminal justice. In fact, there are considerable and important differences between what the prosecutor does and what the legal literature and judicial decisions say he should do. Very little is known about the powers wielded by prosecutors and the factors which influence their exercise of discretion.

 

This inquiry focuses on the decision-making role of the prosecutor in pre-trial determinations. Professor Grosman describes and analyses the prosecutor's informal relations with the police and defence lawyers, and the significance these relationships have for the accused and for the fair administration of justice. Other areas examined include the decision to begin prosecution, the negotiated guilty plea, and the prosecutor's administrative bias. The study concludes with recommendations for judicial and legislative reform. Professor Grosman has added a preface to this edition outlining the changes that have occurred in recent years.

 

A lucid and revealing description of the prosecutor's attitudes to criminal prosecution and its operation, this study contributes important insights valuable to lawyers and all those concerned with the administration of justice, and will be of interest to everyone concerned with social problems.

About the author

Brian A. Grosman Q.C., leads the Toronto-based team for Levitt and Grosman LLP Employment and Labour Law firm. He is a former Professor of Law at the University of Saskatchewan, College of Law and at McGill University in Montreal. He has been a special lecturer on employment law throughout Canada and the United States. He was a guest lecturer at the University of Free Berlin, in Berlin, Germany.

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