* Extensive experience as a lawyer or as a professor of law with continuous membership in the bar association is usually required. * Membership in good standing with a provincial or territorial law society or bar association is required. * Judges are appointed by federal or provincial cabinet. * Those appointed to more senior positions in a court, such as chief justice, usually have experience as judges in that court.
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