Case Law

27 February 2014 | Judicial Body: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Topic(s): Domestic violence - One-child policy / Family planning | Countries: Canada - China

29 January 2014 | Judicial Body: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Topic(s): Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Falun Gong | Countries: China

16 January 2012 | Judicial Body: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Countries: Canada - China - Singapore

27 March 2008 | Judicial Body: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Topic(s): Children-at-risk - Credibility assessment - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - Social group persecution - Unaccompanied / Separated children | Countries: Canada - China

27 March 2008 | Judicial Body: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Topic(s): Children-at-risk - Credibility assessment - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - Social group persecution - Unaccompanied / Separated children | Countries: Canada - China

27 February 2003 | Judicial Body: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Topic(s): Children-at-risk - Exclusion clauses - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Non-state agents of persecution - Persecution based on nationality - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Right to education - Safe third country - State protection | Countries: Canada

7 January 2003 | Judicial Body: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Topic(s): Children-at-risk - Deportation / Forcible return - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Prosecution vs persecution - State protection - Unaccompanied / Separated children - Unlawful departure | Countries: Canada - China

7 January 2003 | Judicial Body: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Topic(s): Children-at-risk - Deportation / Forcible return - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Prosecution vs persecution - State protection - Unaccompanied / Separated children - Unlawful departure | Countries: Canada - China

See also: Lai Cheong Sing and Others v. Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, [2004] FC 179 (3 February 2004), and: 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.

6 May 2002 | Judicial Body: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Topic(s): Credibility assessment - Criminal justice - Death penalty - Exclusion clauses - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Grounds for persecution - Non-state agents of persecution - Persecution based on political opinion - Prosecution vs persecution - Right to justice - Serious non-political crime - Social group persecution | Countries: Canada - China

22 March 2001 | Judicial Body: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Topic(s): Children-at-risk - Domestic violence - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Non-state agents of persecution - Smuggling of persons - Social group persecution - State protection - Trafficking in persons - Unaccompanied / Separated children | Countries: Canada - China