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Immigration 2026 FC 570

Amodu v. Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness)

The Federal Court dismissed judicial review of a negative PRRA, finding the officer reasonably treated mental-health concerns as outside PRRA scope and saw no new individualized risk.

  • Pre‑removal risk assessment (prra)
  • Standard of review (reasonableness)
  • State protection
  • Mental health as basis for persecution
  • Humanitarian and compassionate considerations
  • Credibility
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Human rights 2026 CHRT 39

Dobbie v. Air Canada

The Tribunal granted Air Canada’s motion to strike retaliation allegations from the SOP, holding they were outside the scope of the complaint referred by the Commission.

  • Age discrimination
  • Retaliation/reprisal
  • Tribunal jurisdiction
  • Scope of complaint
  • Commission referral process
  • Age-discrimination
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Tort 2026 FC 512

Stewart v. Canada

The Federal Court found a correctional officer used unjustified force against Kelsey Stewart, causing facial injuries. It awarded $50,000 for battery and $15,000 for Charter vindication.

  • Use of force
  • Battery
  • Section 7 charter
  • Section 12 charter
  • Vicarious liability
  • Damages assessment
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Human rights 2026 CHRT 37

Cain v. Correctional Service Canada

The Tribunal dismissed a motion to reassign, consolidate, or join three discrimination complaints against CSC, finding no sufficient commonality and likely delay and prejudice.

  • Systemic discrimination
  • Consolidation and joinder
  • Assignment of adjudicators
  • Procedural fairness
  • Delay and prejudice
  • Systemic-discrimination
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Immigration 2026 FC 501

Ibrahim v. Canada (Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship)

Judicial review of a negative PRRA was dismissed. The Court held the officer reasonably required personalized, forward-looking evidence and properly weighed the record.

  • Pre-removal risk assessment
  • Non-refoulement
  • Risk of torture
  • Standard of review - reasonableness
  • Evidentiary burden and personalization of risk
  • Pre-removal-risk-assessment
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Administrative law 2026 FCA 73

Cholewa v. Canada (Attorney General)

The Commission reasonably concluded, on the record and applying Amselem, that the appellant’s beliefs were not religious or connected to a spiritual faith and that there was no link between the conduct complained of and a prohibited ground; the Federal Court reasonably deferred to that decision and the appeal is dismissed.

  • Judicial review
  • Procedural fairness
  • Religious discrimination
  • Freedom of religion
  • Frivolous complaints
  • Standard of review
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Immigration law 2026 FC 477

Sikder v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court granted judicial review of an H&C refusal after finding the officer misapprehended the applicant’s evidence of prior gender-based harm in Bangladesh.

  • Humanitarian and compassionate grounds
  • Judicial review
  • Reasonableness standard (vavilov)
  • Gender-based persecution
  • Internal flight alternative
  • Judicial-review
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Human rights 2026 CHRT 35

Abdi et al. v. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, Public Safety Canada, Canada Border Services Agency and Canadian Security Intelligence Service

The Tribunal extended the abeyance of human rights complaints until July 8, 2026 while awaiting an updated NSIRA report on the referred matters.

  • Discrimination based on national or ethnic origin
  • Delay in processing
  • Abeyance of proceedings
  • Referral to nsira
  • Abeyance
  • Human-rights-complaints
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Human rights 2026 CHRT 36

E.F. v. Correctional Service Canada

The Tribunal joined two human rights complaints by E.F. against Correctional Service Canada into one inquiry, finding common factual and legal issues and no sufficient prejudice.

  • Gender identity discrimination
  • Gender-affirming health care
  • Consolidation of complaints
  • Administrative procedure
  • Systemic discrimination
  • Consolidation-of-complaints
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Administrative law 2026 FC 451

Choi v. Canada (Attorney General)

The Federal Court dismissed two judicial review applications by Munchang Choi concerning DFO recruitment processes and a Public Service Commission refusal to investigate.

  • Prematurity and exhaustion of remedies
  • Procedural fairness
  • Reasonableness review
  • Atip disclosure
  • Duty to accommodate
  • Merit principle
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