Judicial Review

judicial review: Canada detention review regime creates an effective presumption against release, while judicial review of detention decisions is largely ineffectual, said the study by the law school International Human Rights Program, to be released Thursday, according to Toronto Star. In some cases, the end result is long-term detention that is, in practice, preventative and indefinite. Calling the country immigration detention system a legal black hole, University of Toronto law school researchers said there are no established criteria in law to determine when a detainee can or should be transferred from an immigration holding centre to a provincial jail. The 129-page report was the result of 10 months of field work and research that included dozens of interviews with lawyers, correctional staff, a former border agency director, doctors, mental health experts, former and current detainees as well as data obtained under government access to information requests. It also followed the high-profile death of Mexican detainee Lucia Vega Jimenez, who committed suicide while in detention in Vancouver. Its release comes just a week after an agitated 39-year-old immigration detainee was restrained and died in a Peterborough hospital after he was transferred from the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.