Case Law

20 March 2006 | Judicial Body: Canada: Federal Court | Topic(s): Burden of proof - Country of origin information (COI) - Effective protection - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Non-state agents of persecution - Persecution based on political opinion | Countries: Canada - Mexico

20 March 2006 | Judicial Body: Canada: Federal Court | Topic(s): Burden of proof - Country of origin information (COI) - Effective protection - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Non-state agents of persecution - Persecution based on political opinion | Countries: Canada - Mexico

See also: Lai Cheong Sing and Others v. Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, [2005] FCA 125 (11 April 2005). Application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed on 9 May 2005.

3 February 2004 | Judicial Body: Canada: Federal Court | Topic(s): Burden of proof - Credibility assessment - Death squads - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Exclusion clauses - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Grounds for persecution - Persecution based on political opinion - Prosecution vs persecution - Serious non-political crime - Social group persecution | Countries: Canada - China

11 April 2003 | Judicial Body: Canada: Federal Court | Topic(s): Burden of proof - Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Effective protection - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Roma | Countries: Canada - Hungary

11 April 2003 | Judicial Body: Canada: Federal Court | Topic(s): Burden of proof - Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity - Effective protection - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Roma | Countries: Canada - Hungary

Application for judicial review of denial of refugee status. Application dismissed.

20 January 1994 | Judicial Body: Canada: Federal Court | Countries: Canada - Sri Lanka