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Family 2025 ONCA 744

Kirby v. Woods

Costs decision in a family appeal: the Court of Appeal held the successful mother was entitled to costs, and fixed them at $80,000 in total.

  • Child return
  • Refugee status
  • Hague convention
  • Costs on appeal
  • Pro bono representation and costs
  • Admissibility of fresh evidence
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Immigration law 2025 FC 1737

Rammal v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

Federal Court dismissed Mr. Rammal’s judicial review of a RAD decision, finding the correct refugee-protection test was applied and the evidence did not show a serious risk from Hezbollah.

  • Refugee status
  • Persecution
  • Designated representative
  • Country conditions
  • Standard of review
  • Credibility
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Immigration law 2025 FC 1141

Adegboye v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court dismissed judicial review of H&C and PRRA refusals, finding no breach of procedural fairness and no unreasonable assessment of the evidence.

  • Humanitarian and compassionate grounds
  • Pre-removal risk assessment
  • Procedural fairness
  • Standard of review
  • Refugee status
  • Humanitarian-and-compassionate-relief
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Immigration law 2025 FC 371

Yohannes v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court granted judicial review, finding unreasonable credibility findings on identity and refugee documents and remitting the matter to a different officer within 60 days.

  • Refugee status
  • Credibility assessment
  • Standard of review
  • Documentary evidence
  • Remedy - remittal and timeline
  • Immigration-law
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Immigration and refugee law 2024 FC 1870

Padron Santos v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court dismissed judicial review of a Refugee Appeal Division decision, holding that the applicants failed to show an unreasonable internal flight alternative analysis in Mexico City.

  • Refugee status
  • Convention refugee
  • Person in need of protection
  • Internal flight alternative
  • Reasonableness review
  • Gender-based persecution
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Immigration law 2024 CF 1519

Lopez de Armas c. Canada (Citoyenneté et Immigration)

La Cour fédérale rejette le contrôle judiciaire de M. Lopez de Armas et de son fils, concluant que la discrimination subie en Colombie ne constituait pas une persécution.

  • Asylum
  • Refugee status
  • Persecution
  • Discrimination
  • State protection
  • Standard of review (reasonableness)
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Immigration 2024 CF 1510

Sepulveda Venegas c. Canada (Citoyenneté et Immigration)

La Cour fédérale rejette le contrôle judiciaire d’un refus d’asile, jugeant raisonnables les conclusions de crédibilité et l’absence de minimum fondement.

  • Credibility assessment
  • Refugee status
  • Manifestly unfounded claim (s.107(2))
  • Standard of review (reasonableness/vavilov)
  • Credibility-assessment
  • Judicial-review
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Immigration law 2024 FC 890

Kandil v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court granted judicial review of a Refugee Protection Division cessation decision, finding the panel’s reavailment analysis unreasonable and inadequately reasoned.

  • Cessation
  • Re‑availment
  • Refugee status
  • Standard of review (reasonableness)
  • Credibility findings
  • Refugee-cessation
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Immigration law 2024 CF 246

Benbekhti c. Canada (Citoyenneté et Immigration)

Contrôle judiciaire rejeté : la Cour fédérale confirme que la SAR pouvait raisonnablement conclure à l’existence d’une PRI à Alger.

  • Internal flight alternative
  • Refugee status
  • Standard of review
  • Reasonableness review
  • Internal-flight-alternative
  • Refugee-status
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Immigration law 2023 FC 1767

Khelefi v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court dismissed judicial review of a RAD refugee decision, finding the credibility assessment reasonable and no personal nexus or risk established.

  • Credibility
  • Family violence
  • Refugee status
  • Judicial review
  • Standard of review
  • Judicial-review
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