Ian Binnie, former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, says he never aspired to a seat on the country’s highest bench. “The odds are so low of it happening, there’s no point. But if the opportunity falls out of the sky and lands in your lap, you grab it,” he says.
Binnie was appointed to the Canadian Supreme Court in 1998 when the court made the rare move of taking a lawyer from the bar directly to the bench. Binnie had made a name for himself by representing governments, including Canada, in public law and aboriginal rights matters, counseling companies on patent and regulatory issues, appearing before various international tribunals, and representing Canada in high-profile disputes involving France and the United States.
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