Meredith takes takes over top crown job
Kerry McCluskey
Northern News Services
Iqaluit (Jan 29/01) - Justice has a new face in Nunavut these days.
Iqaluit resident Richard Meredith has replaced Paremla Clarke as head Crown attorney after she left the territory to pursue a new position with the Department of Justice.
Officially titled the regional director/general counsel of the Nunavut regional office of the Department of Justice, Meredith said last week that he was up to the challenge of the job.
"It is a lot of work and there are a lot of changes coming for us," said Meredith, last Wednesday.
"We're in a transition period."
The transition includes absorbing the Crown attorney's work from the Kivalliq and Kitikmeot regions. While the Nunavut Court of Justice has looked after the prosecution work for the Baffin region for the past two years, Meredith's office just took over the work in the Kivalliq region at the beginning of January.
Come April 1 of this year, the work in the Kitikmeot region will follow suit. The Crown's office in Yellowknife covered that region while officials in the east got on their feet.
Meredith said the change represented an increase in workload for everyone in the Nunavut department.
