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Philip Slayton

Born in England and raised in Manitoba, Philip Slayton is a Canadian lawyer and writer. He is the best-selling author of Lawyers Gone Bad: Money, Sex and Madness in Canada's Legal Profession , and Mighty Judgment: How the Supreme Court of Canada Runs Your Life , among other books. A Rhodes Scholar, he has been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and President of PEN Canada. Married to writer Cynthia Wine, he lives in Toronto and Nova Scotia.