Legal Merit Dept: It often depends on access to a good lawyer and the political leanings of the judge, says a paper by a joint Canadian and American research team, according to The Star. The findings are significant since immigration appeals can make up 85 per cent of the federal court s caseload. And once denied by the court, a case is dismissed and a study of more than 600 Canadian court rulings on immigration and refugee appeals has found favourable outcomes aren t always based on legal merit. The rulings relate to would-be immigrants and refugees who appealed to the Federal Court of Canada after their claims were denied by immigration officials and refugee adjudicators. As
reported in the news.
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