Case Law
- Administrative courts 4
- Appeal / Right to appeal 2
- Arbitrary arrest and detention 2
- Asylum-seekers 2
- Cessation clauses 1
- Changes of circumstances in home country 1
- Children's rights 2
- Complementary forms of protection 2
- Constitutional law 3
- Crimes against humanity 2
- Criminal justice 12
- Death penalty 4
- Decision on admissibility 2
- Deportation / Forcible return 12
- Drug trafficking 5
- Effective remedy 2
- Equality before the law 2
- Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 2
- Exclusion clauses 8
- Expulsion 1
- Extradition 5
- Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 8
- Freedom of expression 4
- Freedom of speech 4
- Genocide 2
- Human rights law 1
- Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) 1
- Hutus 2
- Illegal entry 5
- Immigration Detention 2
- Immigration law 1
- Independence of judiciary 2
- International criminal law 1
- Jurisdiction 1
- Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 2
- Non-refoulement 1
- Persecution based on political opinion 4
- Political asylum 4
- Prison or detention conditions 1
- Refoulement 5
- Refugee / Asylum law 1
- Refugees 1
- Right to justice 2
- Right to liberty and security 10
- Right to life 4
- Roma 1
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 6
- Serious non-political crime 5
- Smuggling of persons 2
- Social group persecution 4
- Standard of proof 2
- Tamil 3
- Terrorism 2
- Well-founded fear of persecution 4
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Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness) v. Chhina, 2019 SCC 29
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 | Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Habeas corpus - Right to liberty and security | Countries: Canada - Pakistan |
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Kanthasamy v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)
10 December 2015 | Judicial Body: Canada: Supreme Court | Topic(s): Complementary forms of protection - Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) | Countries: Canada - Sri Lanka |
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B010 v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)
27 November 2015 | Judicial Body: Canada: Supreme Court | Topic(s): Asylum-seekers - Illegal entry - Immigration law - Smuggling of persons | Countries: Canada - Cuba - Sri Lanka |
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R. v. Appulonappa
27 November 2015 | Judicial Body: Canada: Supreme Court | Topic(s): Asylum-seekers - Constitutional law - Criminal justice - Immigration law - Right to liberty and security - Smuggling of persons - Tamil | Countries: Canada - Sri Lanka |
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Febles v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)
30 October 2014 | Judicial Body: Canada: Supreme Court | Topic(s): Exclusion clauses - Human rights law - Serious non-political crime | Countries: Canada - Cuba |
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Ezokola v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration)
19 July 2013 | Judicial Body: Canada: Supreme Court | Countries: Canada - Congo, Democratic Republic of the |
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R. v. Pham
Subject to editorial revision before its reproduction in final form in the Canada Supreme Court Reports. 14 March 2013 | Judicial Body: Canada: Supreme Court | Topic(s): Criminal justice - Drug trafficking - Expulsion | Countries: Canada - Viet Nam |
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Németh v. Canada (Justice)
On appeal from the Court of Appeal for Quebec. 25 November 2010 | Judicial Body: Canada: Supreme Court | Topic(s): Cessation clauses - Changes of circumstances in home country - Extradition - Non-refoulement - Refoulement - Refugee / Asylum law - Refugees - Roma | Countries: Canada - Hungary |
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Canada (Prime Minister) v. Khadr
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 | Topic(s): Constitutional law - Jurisdiction - Prison or detention conditions - Right to liberty and security | Countries: Canada |
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Charkaoui v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)
On appeal from the Federal Court of Appeal. 26 June 2008 | Judicial Body: Canada: Supreme Court | 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 |
