The B.C.-Yukon Court of Appeal began its annual week of hearings in the territory today, with everything from divorce to murder on the docket.

The oldest file on the list is that of Mark Lange and Dean Boucher (aka Dean Johns), who in June 2006 were convicted of the second-degree murder of Robert Olsen, a Carcross hotel owner.

Both men pleaded not guilty to the murder charge, but after the jury rendered its guilty verdict, Boucher stood up and said the beating death was his fault.

Since then, Boucher has gone back on his admission, and continues to appeal his conviction on various grounds.

Boucher will represent himself in front of the territory's highest court this week, although the same court appointed a lawyer to his case after an appearance last year.

Boucher's flip-flop has been a source of frustration for at least one of Lange's former lawyers, who said in a pre-appeal hearing that Boucher had a habit of changing his story from interview to interview.

The men want to be tried separately if they are given a new trial.

Also on the docket is David Ausiku, a Whitehorse man who has sued a Canada Games Centre employee over his dismissal from the multiplex, and the Yukon Human Rights Commission for "systematic denial of service”, "discrimination”, "defraudation (sic) of perverting the truth from [his] writing” and "causing events to occur negatively instead of making them simple,” in regards to a host of complaints he filed against various bodies. He sued the commission for $2 million.

Both suits were dismissed by the Yukon Supreme Court.