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Immigration law 2025 FC 563

Akar v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

Federal Court dismissed Mehmet Akar’s judicial review of an RPD refusal, finding no procedural unfairness and no unreasonable credibility errors.

  • Convention refugee
  • Person in need of protection
  • Judicial review
  • Standard of review
  • Credibility findings
  • Documentary evidence
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Immigration 2025 FC 434

Absuge v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court dismissed judicial review of a refused refugee-related permanent residence application, finding the officer’s credibility concerns and the process were reasonable.

  • Convention refugee abroad class
  • Humanitarian-protected persons abroad class
  • Credibility and plausibility findings
  • Procedural fairness (opportunity to respond)
  • Distinction from misrepresentation findings
  • Immigration-law
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Immigration law 2024 FC 1737

Ruchika v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court dismissed a judicial review of a Refugee Appeal Division decision, finding the credibility and police-interest findings reasonable and the fairness argument waived.

  • Convention refugee
  • Person in need of protection
  • Credibility findings
  • Weight of evidence
  • Ongoing police interest
  • Immigration-law
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Immigration law 2022 FC 1054

Duran Vargas v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court dismissed a judicial review of a RAD refugee decision, holding that the adverse credibility findings were reasonable and procedural fairness was not breached.

  • Credibility
  • Benefit of the doubt
  • Standard of review
  • Rad/rpd decisions
  • Unp protection eligibility
  • Naming of criminal group (urabeños vs agc)
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Immigration law 2022 FC 420

Takhar v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court dismissed judicial review of a work permit refusal, holding the officer gave adequate procedural fairness and reasonably found misrepresentation under IRPA s 40(1)(a).

  • Misrepresentation under s 40(1)(a) irpa
  • Procedural fairness and duty to respond
  • Innocent mistake exception
  • Agency/representative incompetence
  • Misrepresentation
  • Procedural-fairness
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Immigration VC1-03906

VC1-03906

Appeal dismissed because, on an independent assessment, the proposed IFA (XXXX) is both safe and reasonable on a balance of probabilities: the appellant failed to rebut the IFA due to inconsistent and uncorroborated evidence and did not establish that the alleged persecutor had the means or motivation to locate or harm him in the IFA or that state protection would be unavailable.

  • Internal flight alternative (ifa)
  • Credibility and corroboration
  • State protection
  • Burden of proof
  • Reasonableness test
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Immigration 2021 FC 1222

Tarar v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court dismissed judicial review of a RAD refugee decision, finding no procedural unfairness and no unreasonable credibility or risk assessment.

  • Convention refugee determination
  • Person in need of protection
  • Internal flight alternative
  • Credibility
  • Procedural fairness
  • Reavailment/failure to claim asylum
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Criminal law 2021 BCCA 392

R. v. Christensen

The Court of Appeal for British Columbia dismissed the appellant’s challenge to convictions for sexual assault and uttering threats, finding no burden-shifting or material misapprehension.

  • Burden of proof
  • W.(d.) credibility framework
  • Misdirection on standard of proof
  • Misapprehension of evidence
  • Publication ban (s.486.4 criminal code)
  • Burden-of-proof
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Immigration law MC0-03283

MC0-03283

The appeal is dismissed because although the RAD found the RPD unduly microscopic in parts of its credibility analysis, the appellant failed to establish on a balance of probabilities an ongoing or personalized risk of persecution or cruel and unusual treatment by Grand-Ravine gang members such that he is neither a Convention refugee nor a person in need of protection.

  • Credibility
  • Persecution
  • Prospective risk
  • Convention refugee status
  • Persons in need of protection
  • Procedural fairness
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Immigration MC0-09514

MC0-09514

The RAD dismissed the appeal because on independent review the RPD's adverse credibility findings were supported by inconsistencies, lack of corroboration and implausibilities (including delay despite available visas and failure to provide material details); consequently the appellants failed to prove a real chance of persecution or other protected risk and are neither Convention refugees nor persons in need of protection.

  • Convention refugee
  • Person in need of protection
  • Credibility findings
  • Residual profile (single mother)
  • Corroboration
  • Chairperson's guideline 4
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