Supreme Court Justice Michel Bastarache, along with 6 other Justices of the top court, are suing Supreme Court Justice Ian Binnie for the mental anguish, distress, loss of enjoyment and thwarted expectations, caused by a, “super-lame”, end of the year SCC wind-up party held in Binnie’s apartment. Binnie had allegedly been hyping up what a ’rockin’ social host he would be all year long, and even promised that his event would be more memorable than Justice Major’s legendary 2005 Hallowe’en party, where everyone got sauced, and Louis Lebel, (dressed as Mens Rea) was caught making out with Justice Deschamps (dressed as Wonder Woman) up against the barn at Major’s farm.

Bastarache’s statement of claim describes a highly incompetent social host. In an affidavit Judge B. describes arriving to a run down apartment, that smelt of fish food and wet clothes. It was as if Binnie didn’t even know he was having people
over. Binnie allegedly has no CD player or satellite radio, and resorted to a Boney M Christmas tape. (The party was in September). Moreover, Binnie seemed to have done no shopping whatsoever for food, or beverages. The Justices and their spouses were treated to an opaque bag of soup crackers, lunch-kit style cans of pears, half a jar of pickles, and tap water. While Binnie claims in this day and age BYOB should be implied, there was NO booze on hand, and they were forced to pass around a mickey of jagermeister that Justice Fish “happened to have”.

 

 

The seating arrangements were also said to be poor, as Binnie’s furniture was limited to an Ikea loveseat, and 2 fold-out chairs stolen from a local elementary school. Three justices wedged onto the loveseat, and still, 4 Justices were forced to lay on the floor in a ‘Kate Winslet from Titanic’-esque pose. The silence was said to be deafening, and awkward. Silent gazes and furrowed brows were only quelled with the odd, “Who wants to play spin the bottle”, or, “You know what Ian, this party sucks so bad it makes me want to get drunk, drive home and injure myself, and blame you for it.” Binnie, at one point ,actually got up and left his own party to take a shower, play some computer solitaire and eventually crawl into bed, leaving party-goers to see themselves out the door, one by one. Bastarache left last….and after a final tug of Jag, picked up a lamp and broke it out of spite.

Many of the Justices were deeply burdened, and unable to cope with the loss of opportunity that Binnie’s irresponsible hosting, and world-class horrible party caused. Many are said to be shell-shocked, and worried that no one will want to throw a good-old fashioned piss up again for years. Social host liability has been a hotly contested issue in the Supreme Court in recent years, and never more so than now, after this really, really terrible party.