Fred Kaufman is a Canadian justice, lawyer, and arbitrator.

Career

He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from

Bishop's University Bishop's University (french: Université Bishop's) is a small English-language Liberal arts college, liberal arts university in Lennoxville, a borough of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. The founder of the institution was the Anglican Diocese of Quebe ...

and then spent six years as a reporter for the ''

Montreal Star ''The Montreal Star'' was an English-language Canadian newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It closed in 1979 in the wake of an eight-month pressmen's strike. It was Canada's largest newspaper until the 1950s and remained the dominan ...

''. He graduated from the

McGill University Faculty of Law The Faculty of Law is one of the professional graduate schools of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the oldest law school in Canada, and continually ranks among the best law schools in the world. The faculty is known for it ...

in 1954, where he was the second ever Editor-in-chief of the ''

McGill Law Journal The ''McGill Law Journal'' is a student-run legal publication at McGill University Faculty of Law in Montreal. It is a not-for-profit corporation independent of the Faculty and it is managed exclusively by students. The ''Journal'' also publishes t ...

''. After law school he founded the law firm Kaufman, Yarosky & Fish. Kaufman was appointed to the Québec Court of Appeal in 1973, and became Acting Chief Justice of Québec from 1990-91. In 2005 he published the memoir ''Searching for Justice: An Autobiography''.

References

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