Court of Appeal

The Court of Appeal for the Northwest Territories is the Northwest Territories’ highest appellate court. It hears criminal and civil appeals from the Supreme Court and Territorial Court. An appeal may be of an acquittal, a conviction and/or a sentence in criminal matters or a judgment or order, in the case of civil or family law appeals.

The decisions of the Court of Appeal are binding in all courts in the Northwest Territories. Appeals from decisions made at the Court of Appeal, where provided for by law, are addressed in the Supreme Court of Canada.

The Court of Appeal sits regularly in Yellowknife, but can sit anywhere in the Northwest Territories. An appeal panel is comprised of 3 judges. The Court of Appeal schedule can be found here.

Judges of the Court of Appeal are Judges who are appointed from among those appointed to the Court of Appeal of Alberta, the judges of the Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan, and the judges of the Supreme Courts of the NWT and Yukon and the Nunavut Court of Justice.

Court of Appeal rules can be found here.

Court of Appeal Judges

Order of precedence of the Northwest Territories Court of Appeal (as of March 15, 2024)

• The Honourable Justice R. Khullar C.J.A. Chief Justice (Edmonton, AB)
• The Honourable Justice P.W.L. Martin (Calgary, AB)**
• The Honourable Justice J. Watson (Edmonton, AB)*
• The Honourable Justice F.F. Slatter((Edmonton, AB)
• The Honourable Justice P.A. Rowbotham (Calgary, AB)*
• The Honourable Justice N.A. Sharkey (Iqaluit, NU)
• The Honourable Justice S. Cooper (Iqaluit, NU)
• The Honourable Justice K.M. Shaner (Yellowknife, NT)
• The Honourable Justice S.H. Smallwood (Yellowknife, NT)
• The Honourable Justice A.M. Mahar (Yellowknife, NT)
• The Honourable Justice T.W. Wakeling (Edmonton, AB)**
• The Honourable Justice P. Bychok (Iqaluit, NU)
• The Honourable Justice M.G. Crighton (Edmonton, AB)*
• The Honourable Justice J. Strekaf (Calgary, AB)**
• The Honourable Justice E. Campbell (Whitehorse, YT)
• The Honourable Justice S. Charlesworth (Iqaluit, NU)
• The Honourable Justice C. Lyons (Iqaluit, NU)
• The Honourable Justice E. Hughes (Calgary, AB)**
• The Honourable Justice D. Pentelechuk (Edmonton, AB)
• The Honourable Justice S. Duncan (Whitehorse, YT)
• The Honourable Justice J. Antonio (Calgary, AB)
• The Honourable Justice K. Feehan (Edmonton, AB)
• The Honourable Justice K. Wenckebach (Whitehorse, YT)
• The Honourable Justice B. Ho (Calgary, AB)
• The Honourable Justice A. Kirker (Calgary, AB)
• The Honourable Justice W.T. deWit (Calgary, AB)
• The Honourable Justice J.A. Fagnan (Edmonton, AB)
• The Honourable Justice A.D. Grosse (Calgary, AB)
• The Honourable Justice S.M. MacPherson (Yellowknife, NT)
• The Honourable Justice M. Manocchio (Iqaluit, NU)
• The Honourable Justice A. Woolley (Calgary, AB)
• The Honourable Justice K. Feth (Edmonton, AB)
• The Honourable Justice F. Alibhai (Iqaluit, NU)