Studied at Trent University (B.A.), Memorial University of Newfoundland (M.A.), University of Alberta (Ph.D., M.F.A.), University of Calgary (LL.B./J.D.), University of British Columbia (LL.M., Ph.D.)
South China Morning Post, Peterborough Examiner, University of Alberta, University of Calgary, Simon Fraser University, University of Washington, University of British Columbia
Known for
Appellate lawyer with expertise in extradition and dangerous offenders; critic of Jehovah's Witnesses; plays; poetry
Notable work
The Orwellian World of Jehovah's Witnesses, Fundamental Freedoms and Jehovah's Witnesses, Wrongful Conviction in Canadian Law, Extradition between Canada and the United States, Canadian Extradition Law Practice, Campbell's Kids (novel), Crazy Gran (novel)
Spouse(s)
Heather Harden (1966–2000); Virginia ("Ginny") Martin (2011–)
Children
4
Awards
U.S. National Science Fair – International; U.S. National Academy of Sciences; American Institute of Biological Sciences; Alberta Culture playwriting awards; University of British Columbia Paetzold Fellow; Canada Council postdoctoral fellowships (law); Trent University distinguished alumni award (2015)
Gary Norman Arthur Botting (born 19 July 1943)[1] is a Canadian legal scholar and criminal defense lawyer (now retired) as well as a poet, playwright, novelist, and critic of literature and religion, in particular Jehovah's Witnesses. The author of 40 published books,[2] he remains one of the country's leading authorities on extradition law.[3][4]
He is said to have had "more experience in battling the extradition system than any other Canadian lawyer."[5][6]
^"Profile: Gary Botting". ABC Bookworld. 2011. Archived from the original on 25 October 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
^"B.C. lawyer Dr. Gary Botting builds reputation as a novelist". 16 July 2022.
^Greenway, Norma (6 July 2009). "Schreiber challenges extradition treaty". The Windsor Star. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014. Retrieved 11 January 2013.;http://www.thefilipinopost.com/article/1642-another-kick-chingkoe-can.html
^http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/blogs/giroday/; Sarah Boyd, "Book Review: Canadian Extradition Law Practice", Prism Magazine, 5 February 2012, http://prism-magazine.com/2012/02/book-review-canadian-extradition-law-practice/ Archived 2013-01-19 at the Wayback Machine
^Chris Cobb, "Canada's extradition law: A legal conundrum," Ottawa Citizen, 15 November 2014 https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/canadas-extradition-law-a-legal-condundrum, accessed 16 November 2014
^Trent University Alumni Awards and Honours, 18 April 2015, http://www.trentu.ca/alumni/awardsandhonours_awards.php Archived 2015-04-19 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 1 May 2015 9:44 AM
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almost always a shade of brown. In the late 1950s, amateur lepidopterist GaryBotting hybridized the Polyphemus moth (then known as Telea polyphemus) with...
Island, inviting Heather Botting (as "Lady Aurora") and GaryBotting (as "Lord Pan") to become founding elders. The Bottings and Favarger, along with...
late 1960s by Heather Botting, then wife of the grandson of Gerald Gardner's London-based High Priestess Lysbeth Turner, GaryBotting. Following Heather's...
Science Fair biology winners GaryBotting (zoology) and Susan Brown (botany). Using a novel technique of pheromone transfer, Botting had cross-bred an Antheraea...
create the musical Hair with fellow actor James Rado. Canadian playwright GaryBotting noted, "It is fair to say that Viet Rock was unrivaled in popularity...
lepidopterist GaryBotting that they questioned Kettlewell's data since it too "nicely" approximated Haldane's 1924 statistical calculations. Botting and Haldane...
p. 21. Botting, Gary (1972). "Happenings". The Theatre of Protest in America. Edmonton: Harden House. pp. 12–17. Botting 1972, p. 13. Botting 1972, p...
Bread and Puppet Theater. The name stuck. The year was 1963. Cited in GaryBotting, The Theatre of Protest in America (Edmonton: Harden House, 1972), 21-22...
Burlington, Ontario: Welch Publishing Company. ISBN 0-920413-37-4. Botting, Heather; Botting, Gary (1984). The Orwellian World of Jehovah's Witnesses. University...
Ill-Fated Family)". grotowski.net. 2012-03-18. Retrieved 2024-05-29. GaryBotting, The Theatre of Protest in America (Edmonton: Harden House, 1972), p...
2010-05-04. GaryBotting, "Happenings", in The Theatre of Protest in America (Edmonton: Harden House, 1972) 13-17 Botting, "Happenings",15 Botting, Happenings...
Atlanta, Georgia: Commentary Press. pp. 408. ISBN 0-914675-23-0. Botting, Heather; GaryBotting (1984). The Orwellian World of Jehovah's Witnesses. Toronto:...
extradited to face charges. However, his lawyers, Edward Greenspan and GaryBotting, made a last-ditch motion using a rarely used provision, which granted...
plaques honoring deceased veterans. In Canada, Heather Botting ("Lady Aurora") and GaryBotting ("Pan"), the original high priestess and high priest of...
prehistory to the present. Included among Radley's former residents are: Dr. GaryBotting, now an extradition lawyer in Canada, who attended the Church of England...
were based mainly upon the King James Version of the Bible" Botting, Heather; GaryBotting (1984). The Orwellian World of Jehovah's Witnesses. University...
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