Joseph Sedgwick

Joseph Sedgwick CC QC (24 November 1898 – 27 December 1981) was a Canadian lawyer.

He was born in Leeds, England and became a lawyer in 1923 following studies at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall.

Sedgwick contributed to changes in the Criminal Code through a Royal Commission in the early 1950s.

He was counsel to George and Viola R. MacMillan in the 1964 Royal Commission to probe the activity of Windfall Oil and Mines Ltd.[1] Politically, he was Progressive Conservative.

Sedgwick died in Toronto aged 83, predeceased by his wife Emma Irene McLaughlin.