Rosalie Abella and Jeyakannan Kanthasamy

Immigration Refugee Protection Act: The ruling offers new guidance to officials on interpreting a section of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act that allows for refugee claims to be granted on "humanitarian and compassionate" grounds, according to CTV. Justice Rosalie Abella wrote that the immigration officer who rejected Kanthasamy claim took an "unduly narrow" approach to his case and ordered that the matter be reheard. By a 5-2 margin, the high court on Thursday reversed a decision by the Federal Court of Appeal that upheld the rejection of Jeyakannan Kanthasamy claim that he would suffer serious hardship if he returned to his homeland. Abella said the officer "required Jeyakannan Kanthasamy to present direct evidence that he would face such a risk of discrimination if deported ... it reflects an anemic view of discrimination that this court largely eschewed decades ago." Kanthasamy was 16 years old when his family sent him to Canada in 2010 after the Sri Lankan army and police detained and threatened him on separate occasions. In March 2010, Kanthasamy was arrested in his home, taken to an army camp and detained for a day. It was one year after Sri Lanka long civil war ended with a massive offensive by government forces on Tamil-held areas of the country that has since sparked a United Nations investigation of allegations of war crimes against both sides of the conflict. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.