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Swedish Sami and hunters react to historic win over state in land use case

Loukas Christodoulou, Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 12:32
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The Supreme Court, in Stockholm, was packed with people, most in traditional Sami dress, waiting for the result of a

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Society Society (Sweden) Sweden 

Sami indigenous village wins historic land use case over Swedish state

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 11:58
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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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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Lawyers in Yellowknife, Northern Canada push back at courthouse bail hearing ban

Richard Gleeson, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 15:43
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Criminal defence lawyers have gone to court to fight an “unwritten policy” recently enacted by Justices of the Peace in

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

A Canadian first: Federal court issues decision in Indigenous Cree and Dene languages

David Thurton, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, May 29, 2019 at 09:59 — Last Updated: Wednesday, May 29, 2019 at 14:42
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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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Business Business (Canada) Canada General News 

Northern Canada: town’s fight to switch power distributors reaches Northwest Territories Supreme Court

Richard Gleeson, CBC News
Posted: Monday, March 25, 2019 at 09:57 — Last Updated: Monday, March 25, 2019 at 10:03
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A case that has implications for the cost and distribution of electricity in eight Northwest Territories communities, including the capital

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General News Norway Politics Politics (Norway) 

Supreme Court’s crab fishing ruling reaffirms Norway’s exclusive rights over Svalbard waters

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, February 14, 2019 at 15:43 — Last Updated: Thursday, February 14, 2019 at 15:50
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The Svalbard Treaty does not prevent Norway from punishing companies that engage in catch without permission, the judges say. The

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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

Arctic Canada: Wrongful death lawsuit settled in case of Nunavut’s Baby Makibi

Thomas Rohner, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 14:16
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A settlement has been reached in the wrongful death lawsuit against the government of Nunavut and a former nurse in

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General News Politics Politics (USA) USA 

U.S. government shutdown will doom Arctic projects in court, critics say

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Monday, January 28, 2019 at 10:18 — Last Updated: Monday, January 28, 2019 at 10:21
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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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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

Constitutional challenge mounted for Indigenous man charged with illegal caribou hunting in Atlantic Canada

Jacob Barker, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at 12:12 — Last Updated: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at 13:11
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Innu Nation hunters who are in provincial court in Labrador, Atlantic Canada this week are making a constitutional challenge against

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Canada General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

Indigenous man in Northern Canada who was denied interpreter in court granted mistrial

Jamie Malbeuf, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 11:57 — Last Updated: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 14:22
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A man whose first language is Tlicho, but who was never given an interpreter in court, has been granted a

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Canada General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

Language barrier in northern Quebec can make court baffling for Inuit, justice workers say

Catou MacKinnon, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 at 11:56
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For Inuit in Quebec accused of breaking the law, the first of many barriers to equal treatment in the justice

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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

Judge rules three-year mandatory minimum ‘abhorrent and intolerable’ in Canada’s east-Arctic

Alex Brockman, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 at 16:43 — Last Updated: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 at 16:45
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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 General News Society Society (Canada) 

Canada: no help available for children in northern Quebec scarred by mother’s murder, court hears

Elias Abboud, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, September 20, 2018 at 10:49 — Last Updated: Thursday, September 20, 2018 at 11:02
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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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General News Society Society (USA) USA 

Appeal challenges Alaska’s exclusion of village residents from juries

Casey Grove, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Friday, May 25, 2018 at 13:46
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The Alaska Court of Appeals heard arguments Thursday in a case that could have huge implications for how Alaska village

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General Geopolitics (Russia) News Russia Society 

Russia charges former Norwegian border inspector with espionage

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, April 23, 2018 at 10:07 — Last Updated: Monday, April 23, 2018 at 10:12
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Norwegian officials keep silent about Frode Berg’s alleged connections with the military intelligence service. Frode Berg’s Norwegian lawyer Brynjulf Risnes

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