Northwest Territories (Case Law)

[1]          Jeffrey Jackson is charged with operating a motor vehicle when the level of alcohol in his blood exceeded the legal limit.  After Mr. Jackson had been in a motor vehicle accident, the police obtained a search warrant to seize samples of his blood which had been taken by medical personnel and which were stored at the hospital.  The Crown’s case against Mr. Jackson is based on the...

[1]          The defendants Igor Holubec and Igor Holubec Consulting Inc. (together, “Holubec” or the “Holubec defendants”) were awarded summary judgment and granted party-and-party costs: The Commissioner of the Northwest Territories v 923115 NWT Limited et al., 2018 NWTSC 24.  With the Plaintiff’s consent, the issue of the scale of costs was re-opened and argued in Chambers.  

[1]          Tatiyana Campbell has entered guilty pleas to the following 9 charges:

[1]          This action arises from the construction of the Mackenzie Valley Fibre Link Project (the Project) in which a fibre optic communications system was installed along a 1,200 kilometre route from McGill Lake to Inuvik, Northwest Territories.  The Plaintiff LTS Infrastructure Services Limited Partnership (LTS) was the design-builder, the Defendant Rohl Enterprises Ltd. (Rohl) was a...

[1]          This is an appeal from a sentence imposed at the conclusion of a sentencing hearing held in Territorial Court in Yellowknife on August 3, 2018.

[1]     The accused is charged with having care or control of a motor vehicle while his ability to do so was impaired by alcohol and while his blood alcohol level exceeded of 80 milligrams of alcohol in one hundred millilitres of blood contrary to the provisions of s. 253(1)(a) and 253(1)(b) of the Criminal Code.  Both charges arise out of the same circumstances which occurred on July 29th of...

[1]     This is a hearing on the Director’s application for a permanent custody order regarding J. and F. M.. The Director bases its application on section 7 (b) and (k) of the Child and Family Services Act.

[1]             Prior to December 14, 2018, Brittany Napayok was ordered to pay fines and victim surcharges in respect of a number of offences for which she was sentenced.  The victim surcharges were imposed pursuant to section 737 of the Criminal Code as it read after October 24, 2013.

[1]               The appellant appeals his conviction by a jury for sexual assault. The main issue at trial was consent.

[1]     Geraldine Elleze is charged with operating a motor vehicle while her blood alcohol exceeded the legal limit of eighty milligrams percent contrary to s. 253(1)(b) of the Criminal Code.  She was originally also charged with operating a motor vehicle while her ability to do so was impaired.  However, the Crown stayed the impaired count on the date of her trial.

[1]           The appellant was convicted by a jury of sexual assault. He appealed arguing, in part, that his trial counsel was incompetent because she did not call the appellant’s daughters as witnesses.

[1]          Hassen Abdul Kerim Mohamed faces four charges:  possession of property obtained by crime, contrary to section 354(1) of the Criminal Code; possession of fentanyl for the purpose of trafficking, contrary to section 5(2) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA); possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking, contrary to section 5(2) of