Posted: Apr 07, 2021 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: April 7
Longtime Yellowknife social activist Arlene Hache leaves court on Tuesday after representing herself and winning back a Mercedes sport utility vehicle the crown had attempted to seize as part of a drug bust five years ago.(Richard Gleeson CBC)
An N.W.T. judge has ordered authorities to return a Mercedes sport utility vehicle that was seized after a large drug bust in Yellowknife five years ago.
Justice Andrew Mahar made the order In Northwest Territories Supreme Court on Tuesday, dismissing the crown s argument that owner of the Mercedes ML500, Norman Hache, transferred ownership to his mother after it was seized to avoid having to forfeit it.
Posted: Dec 12, 2020 7:00 AM CT | Last Updated: December 12, 2020
CBC is challenging a publication ban the prosecutor wants on information about the death of a 22-year-old woman in Yellowknife last May. The information came out in court during the sentencing of two people who plead guilty to helping cover up the death.(Walter Strong/CBC)
Arguing for a ban on details of an alleged murder in Yellowknife, a Crown prosecutor said that publication bans are sometimes more necessary in smaller populations such as the North than they are in large southern centres.
Blair MacPherson said in Northwest Territories Supreme Court on Wednesday that the CBC had made powerful and persuasive arguments, against the ban, but added they were arguments for a southern jurisdiction . we re asking for a decision that takes into account the context here.