Burden / standard of proof / Credibility assessment

31 January 2004 | Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Legal Articles/Analyses/Commentaries

11 April 2003 | Judicial Body: Canada: Federal Court | Document type: Case Law | 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 | Document type: Case Law | 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

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 | Document type: Case Law | 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

20 March 2002 | Judicial Body: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Credibility assessment - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Unaccompanied / Separated children | Countries: Canada - Somalia

20 March 2002 | Judicial Body: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Credibility assessment - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Unaccompanied / Separated children | Countries: Canada - Somalia

1 March 2002 | Judicial Body: Canada: Federal Court of Appeal | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims - Persecution based on political opinion | Countries: Bangladesh - Canada

20 October 2000 | Judicial Body: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Credibility assessment - Social group persecution | Countries: Canada - China

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

20 January 1994 | Judicial Body: Canada: Federal Court | Document type: Case Law | Countries: Canada - Sri Lanka

19 May 1989 | Judicial Body: Canada: Federal Court of Appeal | Document type: Case Law | Countries: Canada - Ghana