Nunavut judge to Ottawa: cough up those documents – Nunatsiaq News

November 14, 2014

Federal bureaucrats dragging their feet on thousands of pages of evidence for NLCA lawsuit trial

Federal government bureaucrats must produce all documents related to Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.’s longstanding land claims lawsuit by Jan. 9, Justice Earl Johnson of the Nunavut Court of Justice ruled Nov. 10.

A trial on NTI’s lawsuit, filed December 2006, is set to start March 9, 2015 in Iqaluit and continue in four-week chunks, with two-week breaks, until about Sept. 25.

But federal officials have yet to finish disclosing more than 17,000 pages of documents — required as evidence — to lawyers for NTI and the Government of Nunavut.

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