ROBERT J FRATER QC PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT (2ND ED, THOMSON REUTERS, TORONTO, 2017).

Abstract

Mr Frater is a highly experienced senior Canadian prosecutor. The negativity of the title of his book is justified by the ease with which the principles of proper conduct can be stated compared with the detail necessary to discuss the case law on when those principles are breached. In any event, impropriety will inevitably be of more interest than its opposite, particularly for people who are not prosecutors. The attraction of the book is in its potential to provide relevant examples of when there may be a remedy, a relevance which comes from the similarity of the requirements of proper prosecutorial conduct among legal systems in the common law tradition. An international perspective has the advantage of revealing many more examples of misconduct than one jurisdiction could ever hope to produce. Mr Frater has achieved his stated aim of writing a book that will be useful to defence counsel, prosecutors and judges throughout the Commonwealth.