 He became the first judge to serve on the Supreme court since 1905.He made many landmark decisions, and was very fair in his rulings.One intriguing move he made was to hire an Inuit carver to make soapstone carvings of prominent murder cases he presided over throughout the Far North; he was inspired to do this when he ruled in the favour of traditional justice in the case of a young boy, and the boy presented him with a soapstone carving after the trial.