Editing Morris Fish (section)

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| name          = Morris Fish
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| office        = [[Puisne Justice]] of the [[Supreme Court of Canada]]
| termstart     = August 5, 2003
| termend       = August 31, 2013
| nominator     = [[Jean Chrétien]]
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| predecessor   = [[Charles Gonthier]]
| successor     = [[Clément Gascon]]
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| birth_date    = {{birth date and age|1938|11|16}}
| birth_place   = [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], Canada
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'''Morris Jacob Fish''', {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CC|KC}} (born November 16, 1938) was a [[judge]] of the [[Supreme Court of Canada]] from 2003 to 2013.<ref>{{CanadaSupremeCourtbio|morris-j-fish}}</ref>

Born in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], the son of Aaron S. Fish and Zlata Grober, he received a [[Bachelor of Arts]] (with distinction) in 1959 and a [[Bachelor of Law]] (first class honours) in 1962 from [[McGill University]] (where he was selected as the Articles Editor for the ''[[McGill Law Journal]]'').<ref>{{cite journal |journal=[[McGill Law Journal]] |date=1961 |title=Masthead, Volume 8}}</ref> Upon graduation from law school, he was awarded the Greenshields Prize, the Crankshaw Prize for Highest Standing in Criminal Law and the Macdonald Travelling Scholarship.<ref>Supreme Court of Canada Brochure</ref>

He practiced law mostly in [[Quebec]] for the law firm Cohen, Leithman, Kaufman, Yarosky & Fish which later became Yarosky, Fish, Zigman, Isaacs & Daviault between 1967 and 1989. He also lectured at a number of Canadian law schools. His expertise in practice and teaching was [[criminal law]]. He was appointed to the [[Quebec Court of Appeal]] on June 30, 1989 and was elevated to the Supreme Court of Canada on August 5, 2003, replacing [[Charles Gonthier]]. He retired from the Court on August 31, 2013.