The 2009 Annotated Immigration and Refugee Protection Act of Canada (Goslett & Caruso)

Description:

• All significant statutory developments including amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act together with accompanying Regulations and Rules, supplemented with numerous Editor's Notes to account for transitional provisions from the former Immigration Act
• Significant case annotations including:
  • Thiar vs. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) (Humanitarian and compassionate cases under section 25 of IRPA and the use of international human rights agreements)
  • Thanabalasingham vs. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) (reviewing court may dismiss an application without proceeding to determine the merits, or even if a reviewable error is found, decline to grant relief, where the applicant does not come to the court with clean hands
  • Palka v. Canada (Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness) (Review of removal decisions)
  • Nagalingam v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) (Section 115 (2) (b) applies to a Convention Refugee or a protected person when acts in the context of organized criminality are of substantial gravity).
• Guidelines of the Chairperson of the Immigration and Refugee Board providing guiding principles for adjudicating and managing cases
• A table of concordance that relates sections of the former Immigration Act to the corresponding sections of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act
• Comprehensive index to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, Regulations, Rules, the Immigration Act, Regulations, Rules and other related legislation.