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
Geography of Northwest Territories by the Hudson's Bay Company to the new Canadian confederation in 1870. Some of those lands were added to the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Then the province of Manitoba was formed from them in 1870, and Alberta and Saskatchewan in 1905, all south of 60° North. In 1898, the Yukon Territory was separated. The boundaries of the Northwest Territories were set in 1912 and stayed fixed until Nunavut was created in 1999. From 1920 until 1999 the Territories were divided into three districts: Franklin, Keewatin and Mackenzie. Ever since the 1982 patriation of the Canadian Constitution, several land claims