1. Ian Binnie graduated from Trinity College School in 1957 and McGill University in 1960, where he was the News Editor of the McGill Daily, a producer and writer of the Red and White Revue, and a member of the Scarlet Key Honor Society.
21 Facts About Ian Binnie
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Justice Ian Binnie was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1998, replacing Justice John Sopinka.
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Ian Binnie was one of the counsel representing Canada against the United States before the International Court of Justice in the Gulf of Maine Boundary Dispute and before an international tribunal against France in the maritime boundary dispute concerning St Pierre and Miquelon.
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Ian Binnie represented parties in judicial inquiries, including the federal government in the Sinclair Stevens Inquiry into Ministerial conflicts of interest and for various private parties in the provincial Patti Starr Inquiry into allegations of corruption in political fundraising.
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In May 2011, Justice Ian Binnie announced his plans to retire as early as August 30,2011, unless there was a delay in the appointment of his replacement.
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Ian Binnie continued until Michael Moldaver and Andromache Karakatsanis were appointed in on October 27,2011, replacing him and Louise Charron, who had left the court on August 30,2011.
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In retirement, Ian Binnie received various mandates including appointment by the Secretary General of the United Nations to chair the UN Internal Justice Committee.
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Ian Binnie was appointed Honorary Colonel of 426 Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force in 2012.
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Ian Binnie was awarded honorary doctorates from the Law Society of Upper Canada, McGill University, Western University, and Trinity College at the University of Toronto.
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On November 16,2011, the New Zealand Justice Minister Simon Power announced that Ian Binnie had been selected to review the David Bain case and Bain's request for compensation for wrongful conviction and imprisonment.
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Ian Binnie joined Arbitration Place as Resident Arbitrator, presiding over both Canadian and international arbitrations.
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Ian Binnie has chaired numerous investor state dispute arbitrations for the World Bank and the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.
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Ian Binnie criticized Collins for consulting with the police and prosecutors while refusing to give a copy of his report to Bain's legal team and for leaking selective details of his report to the media.
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Ian Binnie is praised for his honesty and intellect, and his reputation extends well beyond Canada's borders.
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Former Australian High Court Justice Ian Binnie Callinan was then commissioned by the New Zealand Government to conduct a fresh enquiry.
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Ian Binnie stated that the only issue before him was whether Bain had met the onus of establishing his factual innocence and concluded that he had not.
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Bain's lawyers threatened to have Callinan's report set aside on judicial review on the basis that Callinan had rejected Bain's version of events without, as Ian Binnie had done, interviewing Bain personally.
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In 2015, former Justice Ian Binnie was appointed by the Senate of Canada to investigate sensational claims by the Auditor General of Canada that more than a dozen Senators had misused Senate resources over a period of years.
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The Ian Binnie Report was accepted by the Senate and monies were reimbursed by errant Senators as appropriate.
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In R v Campbell [1999] 1 SCR 565 Ian Binnie wrote for the Court that in prosecutorial decisions the police are independent of political direction or control.
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In Whiten v Pilot Insurance [2002] 1 SCR 595,2002 SCC 18, Ian Binnie wrote for the court developed the principles governing an award of punitive damages in upholding a jury award of a $1 million punitive damages against an insurance company for bad faith rejection of a householder's fire insurance claim.