An Adjudicator’s Toolkit

Summertime and the adjudicating is easy?

It’s been a week for slowing down, with hot and humid days - so, a couple of case notes and a short commentary on “slow productivity”

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Jun 21, 2024
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Cases of note

The end of boilerplate decision letters?

Kashefi v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2024 FC 856

This case involved the refusal of visa applications. Justice William Pentney found the reasons provided by the visa officer to be “simply too generic to meet the standard of responsive justification demanded by Canada (Minister of Citizenship…

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