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Class actions 2025 FC 282

A.B. v. Canada

The Federal Court certified a class action by CAF members alleging racial discrimination and harassment and approved a $150 million settlement with systemic relief.

  • Systemic negligence
  • Racial discrimination
  • Racial harassment
  • Vicarious liability
  • Settlement approval
  • Monetary assessment scheme
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Criminal law 2022 ONCA 863

R. v. L.C.

The trial judge considered the appellant's family circumstances and systemic factors, treated family separation as a mitigating factor, found the evidence of specific collateral consequences weak, and imposed a sentence at the low end of the established Cunningham range; no error in principle or demonstrable unfitness was shown, so leave is granted but the appeal is dismissed.

  • Importation of cocaine
  • Sentencing range (cunningham)
  • Collateral consequences
  • Systemic discrimination/anti-black racism
  • Duress/gardiner hearing
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Labour and employment law 2021 NSSC 323

Murphy v. Unifor Local 4606

The Review Officer's dismissal was reasonable: on the balance of probabilities there was insufficient evidence that the union acted arbitrarily, discriminatorily or in bad faith; the union provided assistance, reasonably declined arbitration based on prior unsuccessful precedent, and the Review Officer's written reasons satisfied the Vavilov requirements of adequacy, coherence and rationality.

  • Duty of fair representation
  • Judicial review - reasonableness (vavilov)
  • Union grievance and arbitration discretion
  • Accommodation for disability
  • Procedural prerequisites under trade union act s.55
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Immigration law 2016 FC 1230

Galamb v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court dismissed a judicial review of a RAD refugee decision, finding no reviewable error in the refusal of new evidence, cumulative persecution analysis, state protection assessment, or Huruglica review approach.

  • State protection
  • Cumulative persecution
  • Admission of new evidence (s.110(4) irpa)
  • Standard of review / huruglica
  • State-protection
  • Cumulative-persecution
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