Samuel Freedman, OC QC (16 April 1908 – 6 March 1993),[1] was a Canadian lawyer and judge, who served as Chief Justice of Manitoba from 1971 to 1983.
The two were parents to Martin Freedman, a former Justice of the Manitoba Court of Appeal whose first judicial appointment was to a position once held by his father.
In later years, he acknowledged the influence of criminal law practitioners R. A. Bonner and A. J. Andrews and civil litigators Isaac Pitblado, A. E. Hoskin, W. Parker Fillmore, R. D. Guy, and E. K. Williams as being important to his development as a lawyer.
In 1941, Freedman was elected to the executive of the Manitoba Bar Association (MBA), representing the Eastern Judicial District.
In April 1952, Freedman was appointed to the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench, and as result, dissolved his firm with Golden.
In 1964, Freedman was called upon to conduct an inquiry and public hearings into a railway workers' dispute regarding technological changes.
The following quotation has been attributed to Freedman:They say that during the first five years every judge delivers his judgment with a lurking suspicion in his mind that he is wrong.
In 1978, on his 70th birthday, Freedman was honoured with the establishment of a chair in legal advocacy at the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.