Nunavut Court of Justice 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. Nunavut Court of Justice The Nunavut Court of Justice (short: "NUCJ"; , "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 and all of the islands in Hudson Bay, James Bay, and Ungava Bay, including the Belcher Islands, all of which belonged to the Northwest Territories from which Nunavut was separated. This makes it the fifth-largest subnational entity (or administrative division) in the world. If Nunavut were a country, it would rank 15th in area. Nunavut has long land borders with the Northwest Territories on the mainland and a few Arctic islands, and with Manitoba to the south of the Nunavut mainland; it also meets Saskatchewan to the southwest at a quadripoint). Through its small satellite territories in the southeast, it