Lopez Alvarez v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)
Federal Court granted judicial review of an H&C refusal, finding the officer unreasonably assessed rehabilitation and the best interests of the applicant’s children.
- Humanitarian and compassionate discretion
- Best interests of the child
- Rehabilitation and criminal inadmissibility
- Standard of review (reasonableness)
- Record suspension (pardon)
- Humanitarian-and-compassionate-discretion