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Clayton Ruby fonds
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General correspondence : January, 1986 to June, 1986

File consists of correspondence sent and received by Ruby regarding a variety of topics, including letters from prisoners and others seeking his opinion or help, requests for employment, complaint letters sent by Ruby, letters between lawyers regarding legal cases, and letters of congratulations for his representation of Guy Paul Morin. Personal correspondence pertaining to home renovations, personal finances and letters sent to friends is also in this file. Also included is related memoranda, legal documents, journal articles, newspaper clippings, notes, and a magazine.

General : Jan. 1, 1997 to Sept. 30, 1997

File consists of a variety of records, including correspondence, legal documents, newspaper articles, journal articles, memoranda, notes, newsletters, draft newspaper columns, press releases and a photograph. The correspondence in this file sent by Clayton Ruby consists of complaint letters, letters to the editor, recommendation letters, and thank you letters. Correspondence sent to Ruby includes invitations to social and legal events, requests for legal representation, applications for employment, requests for charitable donations and letters from Mendelson Joe and June Callwood. Subjects documented in this file include the 1996 City of Toronto municipal election, the activities of the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, legal aid reform, and the legal case of Joseph Stanley Faulder.

Book reviews 1990

File pertains to the review of law books by Ruby and others when he served as book review editor for Criminal Law Quarterly in 1990.

Free speech

File consists of a newspaper article, an editorial on free speech from Liberal Opinion Week.

Old Globe & Mail columns

File consists of correspondence, draft articles, legal documents, notes, newspaper clippings, journal articles, reports and memoranda pertaining to Ruby's column in the Globe and Mail, "The Fifth Column." Ruby's articles cover a variety of topics, including human rights, freedom of speech and libel laws, the Toronto Police Department, Quebec sovereignty, Sunday shopping, Canadian peacekeepers, regulation of judges, legal aid, gun control, the rape shield law, judicial appointments, fees for lawyers, and the wrongful convictions of Donald Marshall Jr. and David Milgaard.

Old Globe & Mail columns

File consists of correspondence, draft articles, newspaper clippings, notes, legal documents, and journal articles pertaining to Ruby's column for the Globe and Mail, "The Fifth Column." Included is correspondence with proofreaders and letters sent by readers. Topics covered in this file and in his articles include Clayoquot Sound, Clara Brett Martin and anti-semitism, the Toronto Police Department's Special Investigations Unit, legal aid, Solicitor General Doug Lewis, Ernst Zundel, hiring policies of the Toronto Fire Department, the sexual abuse of patients, and Ruby's layoff from the Globe and Mail.

Police correspondence 1987, 1988

File consists of correspondence, complaint reports, newspaper clippings, notes, and letters to the editor regarding the Toronto Police Department's response to the 1988 Economic Summit demonstration and other complaints about police conduct submitted by Ruby.

Ruby, Clay v. Air Canada

File consists of correspondence, memoranda, legal documents, and itineraries/tickets/boarding passes pertaining to Ruby's small claims court claim against Air Canada after missing a flight.

Accession 2007-048

Accession consists of subject and general correspondence files dealing with Clayton Ruby's work on issues such as advocacy, the death penalty, politics, book reviews, letters to the editor in the Globe & Mail and Toronto Star, policing, Amnesty International, the Writers' Union, the Stephen Leacock home in Orillia, the Meech Lake Accord, free speech, and a reunion of York University graduates.

Clay's general : Feb. 1/89 - end of 1989

File consists of correspondence sent and received by Ruby pertaining to his professional and personal activities, including invitations to legal, educational and social events, requests for employment and/or articling positions, legal opinions, and recommendation letters. Also documented in this correspondence is Ruby's involvement with abortion rights and his media appearances on that subject, travel arrangements, his work as a criminal defence lawyer (for the Morgentaler Clinic and Barbara Dodd), his anti-nuclear weapon activism, his position as a bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada and his column in the Toronto Star. The file includes related notes, legal judgments, newspaper clippings, interoffice memoranda, reports and conference materials.

CCR : general : Jun. 86-Dec.86

File consists predominantly of correspondence sent and received by Clayton Ruby, including invitations to events and conferences, applications for employment, letters requesting legal representation, Ruby's letters to the editor of the Globe & Mail, recommendation letters written by Ruby, his complaint letters, as well as correspondence regarding legal cases and Ruby's personal expenses and purchases. Also included in this file are newspaper clippings, legal documents, notes, interoffice memoranda, draft papers, photographs, and government bills. Some of these records document Ruby's involvement as a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada's discipline committee, his membership in the Writers' Union of Canada, and his activism regarding abortion rights and access to abortions.

General file 3

File consists of correspondence, CVs, interoffice memoranda, journal articles, notes, legal documents, newspaper clippings, and catalogues created or accumulated by Clayton Ruby. Correspondence in this file includes Ruby's complaint letters, his letters to the editor of the Globe & Mail, as well as letters of congratulations, and correspondence to and from politicians. Records in this file pertain to legal cases, job applications, Ruby's book "Sentencing", charitable donations, wine purchases, his work as a bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada, speaking engagements, and his activities as book review editor for Criminal Law Quarterly.

Book reviews 1987

File consists of correspondence, draft book reviews and notes relating to Ruby's role as book review editor for the Criminal Law Quarterly.

Globe and Mail letters 1982

File consists of correspondence, notes, newspaper clippings relating to Ruby's book reviews and work as counsel for the paper, as well as his letters to the editor.

Personal 1982 (inclu C/V

File consists of photographic portraits of Ruby, wine labels, Ruby's CV, personal correspondence, personal financial records, financial statements for Ruby and Edwardh, notes, and correspondence relating to a Law Society of Upper Canada meeting to be held at his cottage.

Police letters

File pertains to complaints made by Ruby against the Toronto Police Department.

Summit complaint

File consists of correspondence, affidavits, a complaint statement and reports pertaining to arrests at a 18 June 1988 demonstration at the Economic Summit Conference and a subsequent complaint filed by Ruby against the Toronto Police Department regarding the rights of prisoners to counsel.

Accession 2000-042

Accession consists of correspondence, speeches, and notes and generally pertains to Amnesty International, the Law Society, the Advocates Society, the Law Reform Commission, the police, and race relations.

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