Citizenship and Immigration

APPEAL WATCH: Pepa v Canada, bound by obiter

Ewen: The judge-represented litigant

"Saved by the Valve:" Analysis and Takeaways from Canadian Council for Refugees v Canada

"Saved by the Valve:" Refugees and Concerns with the Safe Third Country Agreement

​​Reasonably Robust Reasonableness: Mason v Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

To Deport or Not to Deport, A Question of Reasonableness: SCC Grants Leave to Appeal to Mason v Minister of Citizenship and Immigration

SCC to Revisit the Safe Third Country Agreement in Canadian Council For Refugees, et al. v Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, et al.

Mixed Sexual Orientations Are No Obstacle to Forming a Conjugal Relationship: AP v Canada

In a spousal immigration decision at the Federal Court last month, the legal definition of a conjugal relationship was expanded to include couples who have different sexual orientations — in this case, a gay man and straight woman. In AP v Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2020 FC 906 [AP v Canada], Justice Janet M. Fuhrer […]

Canada v Chhina: Should Habeas Corpus be Available to Immigration Detainees?

Feher v Canada: Strike Three Against the “Safe Country” List in Canada's Refugee Law

Until late March 2019, when Justice Keith Boswell struck down s.112(2)(b.1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, SC 2001, c 27 [IRPA], refugee claimants from certain “designated” countries were required to wait for two years longer compared to all other refugee claimants for a risk assessment of their removal from Canada. Two weeks ago in Feher v […]