then challenged Ontario CCF Ted Jolliffe for the party's leadership, but was defeated by Jolliffe at the 1946 leadership convention in Hamilton, Ontario. Duncan had a colourful reputation as a lawyer. He once challenged a Supreme Court justice to step out of his courtroom and repeat his statements in the hallway and was fined $2,000 in 1957 for "scandalizing the court" when he asked a Supreme Court justice to withdraw himself from a hearing without giving a reason. He never paid the fine but was barred thereafter from arguing cases before the Supreme Court. Death Duncan died aged 68, on 8 April 1960, when he shot himself to death in the washroom of a downtown Toronto department store. According to The Globe and Mail newspaper, Duncan was "long disturbed over the death of his only son, John, in the Second World War." References Toronto city councillors Lawyers in Ontario 1960 deaths 1892 births Canadian Expeditionary Force officers Suicides by firearm in Ontario 1960 suicides Canadian politicians who committed suicide