Nunavut Court of Justice

Nunavut Court of Justice
Arms of the Court of Justice
Established	1999
Country	Nunavut
Location	Iqaluit
Composition method	appointed by the federal government
Authorized by	Government of Canada by Nunavut Act, 1993
Decisions are appealed to	Nunavut Court of Appeal
No. of positions	5
Website	http://www.nucj.ca/
Senior Judge Justice
Currently	Mr Justice Robert Kilpatrick
Since	2009

The Nunavut Court of Justice (short: NUCJ; Inuktitut: ᓄᓇᕘᒥ ᐃᖅᑲᖅᑐᐃᔨᒃᑯᑦ, Nunavuumi Iqkaqtuijikkut; Inuinnaqtun: Nunavunmi Maligaliuqtiit) is the superior court and territorial court of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. It is administered from the Nunavut Justice Centre (Building #510) in Iqaluit. It was established on April 1, 1999 as Canada's only "unified" or single-level court with the consent of Canada, the Office of the Interim Commissioner of Nunavut and Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. the Inuit Land Claims representative organization. Prior to the establishment of Nunavut as a separate territory justice was administered through two courts, the Territorial Court of the Northwest Territories and the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories.

Besides court proceedings in Iqaluit the judges travel as a circuit court to communities throughout the territory to conduct cases.

Appointed at the creation of Nunavut in 1999, Administrative Crown Counsel, (British Columbia), Legal Counsel in Inuvik and Whitehorse