Canada

Courts — Jurisdiction — Habeas corpus — Exceptions to exercise of jurisdiction by provincial superior courts — Immigration detainee applying for habeas corpus — Superior court declining jurisdiction to hear application on basis that detention review scheme in Immigration and Refugee Protection Act is complete, comprehensive and expert statutory scheme providing for review at least as broad as that available by way of habeas corpus and no less advantageous — Whether superior court erred in declining jurisdiction — Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, S.C. 2001, c. 27.

10 May 2019 | Judicial Body: Canada: Supreme Court | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Habeas corpus - Right to liberty and security | Countries: Canada - Pakistan

27 November 2015 | Judicial Body: Canada: Supreme Court | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Asylum-seekers - Constitutional law - Criminal justice - Immigration law - Right to liberty and security - Smuggling of persons - Tamil | Countries: Canada - Sri Lanka

7 August 2015 | Judicial Body: UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) - Right to liberty and security - Right to life | Countries: Canada - Sri Lanka

5 June 2015 | Publisher: Amnesty International | Document type: Country Reports

28 October 2013 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) | Document type: States Parties Reports

This document is subject to editorial revision before its reproduction in final form in the Canada Supreme Court Reports. On appeal from a judgment of the Federal Court of Appeal (Nadon, Evans and Sharlow JJ.A.), 2009 FCA 246.

29 January 2010 | Judicial Body: Canada: Supreme Court | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Constitutional law - Jurisdiction - Prison or detention conditions - Right to liberty and security | Countries: Canada

On appeal from the Federal Court of Appeal.

26 June 2008 | Judicial Body: Canada: Supreme Court | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Constitutional law - Criminal justice - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Right to justice - Right to liberty and security - Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness | Countries: Canada - Morocco

En appel de la Cour d’appel fédérale.

26 June 2008 | Judicial Body: Canada: Supreme Court | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Constitutional law - Criminal justice - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Right to justice - Right to liberty and security - Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness | Countries: Canada - Morocco

On appeal from the Federal Court of Canada: 2007 FC 229, [2008] 1 F.C.R. 87.

24 April 2008 | Judicial Body: Canada: Federal Court of Appeal | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Changes of circumstances in home country - Complementary forms of protection - Convention refugee - Deportation / Forcible return - Non-refoulement - Right to liberty and security - Right to life - Standard of proof - Tamil | Countries: Canada - Sri Lanka

On appeal from the Federal Court of Canada: 2007 CF 229, [2008] 1 R.C.F. 87.

24 April 2008 | Judicial Body: Canada: Federal Court of Appeal | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Changes of circumstances in home country - Complementary forms of protection - Convention refugee - Deportation / Forcible return - Non-refoulement - Right to liberty and security - Right to life - Standard of proof - Tamil | Countries: Canada - Sri Lanka