For the Judiciary and members of the Nunavut Bar, the Nunavut Court of Justice Law Library offers access to the following databases:

LexisNexis – Quicklaw

    • Case law and legal research database – password required
    • Content is available in English and French
    • All published Nunavut decisions are available from this database*

 Carswell – WestlawNext

    • Case law and legal research database - password required
    • Content is available in English and French
    • All published Nunavut decisions are available from this database*

Lexum (Federation of Law Societies of Canada) – CanLII

    • Case law and legal research database – password not required
    • Content is available in English and French
    • All published Nunavut decisions are available from this database*

 Carswell – Martin’s Criminal Code Database

    • Searchable database of the Canadian Criminal Code and includes the full text of the following:
      • all versions of the Criminal Code dating back to 1955,
      • cross-references, synopses, and annotations from Martin's Annual Criminal Code dating back to 1955,
      • forms of charges dating back to 1970, and
      • cases referred to in Martin's case law annotations

 

In order to access any of these databases, please see the Manager, Court Library Services during open hours – these databases, with the exception of CanLII, are only accessible in the Law Library. Off-site access is not currently available.

The Manager, Court Library Services will assist with questions or provide mini-training sessions upon request with these databases in the Law Library.

Note: access is ONLY permitted to subscribed content – you may not access services which require payment per access

*All published decisions are distributed by the Nunavut Courts to LexisNexis, Carswell, and CanLII, however, these are commercial publishers and the Nunavut Courts cannot tell them what to publish. These publishers are very good at publishing most, if not all, of our decisions in their databases.

Summaries of Published Decisions  

The list below contains all of the published decisions of the Nunavut Court of Justice, Nunavut Court of Appeal, and the Youth Justice Court of Nunavut. (Translations pending)

Nunavut Court of Justice 

 

Nunavut Court of Appeal 

 

Nunavut Youth Court 

All Law Students must have this form completed by their supervisor and returned to the Manager, Court Library Services or they cannot borrow from the collection. You may click on the link below to view this form, fill it out online, or download it. The completed form should be returned physically to the Library - please note that to be considered a completed form it must have all of the required information and your supervisors signature.

 

Law Student Borrower Form

Decisions of the Nunavut Court of Justice are now available at  www.canlii.org 
Decisions of the Nunavut Court of Justice are also available through Quicklaw (LexisNexis) and Westlaw (Carswell). These two sites are membership sites that require a paid subscription.  If you are having difficulty locating a published decision of the Nunavut Court of Justice, Nunavut Court of Appeal, or the Youth Justice Court of Nunavut, you may contact the Court Library by email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  or 867-975-6165.
  
Please be aware that these are only those decisions which have been selected for publication by the Judiciary. All other decisions are available by downloading the Transcript Request Form
2013 Transcript Request Form
 
This form is to be submitted to the NUCJ Registry along with the required fee which pays for the production of the transcript. Please contact the Registry at 1-867-975-6100 (main) or 1-866-286-0546 (tollfree) for further information, including the current fee schedule.
 

Summaries of Published Decisions  

The list below contains all of the published decisions of the Nunavut Court of Justice, Nunavut Court of Appeal, and the Youth Justice Court of Nunavut. (Translations pending)

 

Nunavut Court of Justice 

Nunavut Court of Appeal 

Youth Justice Court of Nunavut 
 

The following method of citing Nunavut legislation has been set out in Nunavut legislation, therefore for the sake of consistency, it is our recommendation that when you cite Nunavut legislation you follow the examples below rather than the style advocated by the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (McGill Guide).

 

1.  For NWT Statutes that were duplicated for Nunavut on April 1, 1999 according to s. 29 of the Nunavut Act, S.C. 1993, c. 28.

    

Jury Act, R.S.N.W.T. 1988, c.J-2 (Nunavut)  

 

2. For NWT Statutes that were specifically enacted for Nunavut by the NWT prior to April 1, 1999, that were to apply only in Nunavut after March 31, 1999:

     

Justices of the Peace Act, S.N.W.T. 1998, c.34, s.2 (Nunavut),

 

3. For Nunavut Statutes enacted by Nunavut after April 1, 1999:

     Flag of Nunavut Act, S.Nu. 1999, c.1.

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