Nornickel must pay €1.62 billion for its huge oil spill in Arctic tundra
More than 21,000 tons of diesel oil spilled into rivers, lakes and vulnerable wetlands. Now, the company has to pay
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Swedish Sami and hunters react to historic win over state in land use case
The Supreme Court, in Stockholm, was packed with people, most in traditional Sami dress, waiting for the result of a
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Sami indigenous village wins historic land use case over Swedish state
The Supreme Court has granted a Sami association in the far north the sole right to manage small-game hunting on
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Lawyers in Yellowknife, Northern Canada push back at courthouse bail hearing ban
Criminal defence lawyers have gone to court to fight an “unwritten policy” recently enacted by Justices of the Peace in
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A Canadian first: Federal court issues decision in Indigenous Cree and Dene languages
In a bid to make the justice system more accessible, Canada’s Federal Court has issued its first ruling in Cree
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Northern Canada: town’s fight to switch power distributors reaches Northwest Territories Supreme Court
A case that has implications for the cost and distribution of electricity in eight Northwest Territories communities, including the capital
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Supreme Court’s crab fishing ruling reaffirms Norway’s exclusive rights over Svalbard waters
The Svalbard Treaty does not prevent Norway from punishing companies that engage in catch without permission, the judges say. The
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Arctic Canada: Wrongful death lawsuit settled in case of Nunavut’s Baby Makibi
A settlement has been reached in the wrongful death lawsuit against the government of Nunavut and a former nurse in
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U.S. government shutdown will doom Arctic projects in court, critics say
Now that U.S. President Donald Trump has agreed to temporarily fund the Interior Department, the Coast Guard and other closed
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Constitutional challenge mounted for Indigenous man charged with illegal caribou hunting in Atlantic Canada
Innu Nation hunters who are in provincial court in Labrador, Atlantic Canada this week are making a constitutional challenge against
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Indigenous man in Northern Canada who was denied interpreter in court granted mistrial
A man whose first language is Tlicho, but who was never given an interpreter in court, has been granted a
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Language barrier in northern Quebec can make court baffling for Inuit, justice workers say
For Inuit in Quebec accused of breaking the law, the first of many barriers to equal treatment in the justice
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Judge rules three-year mandatory minimum ‘abhorrent and intolerable’ in Canada’s east-Arctic
A Nunavut judge has struck down a three-year mandatory minimum firearms sentence as cruel and unusual punishment. It’s yet another
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Canada: no help available for children in northern Quebec scarred by mother’s murder, court hears
Nellie Angutiguluk’s three children are in dire need of counselling in the wake of their mother’s murder — something which
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Appeal challenges Alaska’s exclusion of village residents from juries
The Alaska Court of Appeals heard arguments Thursday in a case that could have huge implications for how Alaska village
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