Sean Fine is a Canadian journalist. Fine has covered the justice beat at the ''

Globe and Mail ''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it ...

'' for the past decade.

Career

In May 2015, Fine won the

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for his writing on politics. In May 2018, Fine won the "beat reporting" award for "an examination of Canada's judicial system after time limits on criminal proceedings were imposed by the

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." Fine was part of the team of four writers who won in May 2020 the John Wesley Dafoe Award "for breaking the news that the Prime Minister’s Office had pressured the

justice minister A justice ministry, ministry of justice, or department of justice is a ministry or other government agency in charge of the administration of justice. The ministry or department is often headed by a minister of justice (minister for justice in a v ...

to abandon prosecution of

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, and a series of follow-up reports as the ensuing scandal grew."

References

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