He then attended the Presbyterian Boys' Senior High School also in Legon, Ghana.
B. degree at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University in 1991.
He was appointed the deputy director of the Federal Prosecution Service, Ontario Watch in 2002.
He was involved in the design and implementation of Canada's first Drug Treatment Court in 1998.
[7] Barnes was appointed as a Judge of the Ontario Superior Court on 8 February 2013.