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Further Bissett chose to focus the case on the issue of tax evasion and not on the basis of racial discrimination.
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Frederick Bissett
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Bissett"s decision to opt for a judicial review rather than appeal the original conviction proved disastrous. When dismissing the case, Justice William Lorimer Hall said:
Upon losing the case, Bissett refused to bill Desmond and his fees were donated back to William Pearly Oliver"s Nova Scotia Association for the Advancement of Coloured People. Bissett"s parents moved from Saint John"s, Newfoundland to Halifax, Nova Scotia when he was 3 months old.
He graduated Dalhousie University 1926 and later became a Justice of Supreme Court of Nova Scotia in 1961.
He retired in 1977 and died the following year.
