Ottawa appoints respected lawyer to the Nunavut bench – Nunatsiaq News

June 29, 2015

Former Crown prosecutor replaces Andrew Mahar, who joins the NWT Supreme Court

Paul Bychok, a respected lawyer who recently retired as a Crown prosecutor in Nunavut, will now serve as a judge of the Nunavut Court of Justice.

Peter MacKay, the federal justice minister, made the announcement June 26.

Bychok fills a spot on the Nunavut bench vacated May 28 by Andrew Mahar, who was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories.

Between 2003 and his retirement from the job this past April 2, Bychok served as a senior lawyer for the Public Prosecution Service in Nunavut.