Release Hearing: Hearing and Court

release hearing: The hearing before Justice Alfred O'Marra — regardless of whether Brown is put on a plane — will see his lawyers press for damages of $1,500 for each day of his lengthy incarceration, if the court finds any of it to have been unlawful, according to The Chronicle Herald. The federal government maintains the release hearing cannot give rise to damages and Brown would need to sue in civil court if he believes he deserves compensation. If Jamaica fails to issue Alvin Brown a travel document as has happened before, the "habeas corpus" hearing in Ontario Superior Court is expected to resume within hours of his scheduled departure on the morning of Sept. 7. Brown law counsel disagree. "It not in the public interest to have this go through the courts twice with basically the same evidence," immigration consultant Mac Donald Scott, one of Brown legal team, said on Thursday. He was released from criminal custody in early 2011 but border agents detained him months later for violating release conditions. Brown, 40, a father of six who arrived in Canada 33 years ago and became a permanent resident a year later, was deemed inadmissible after 17 convictions, most drug and weapons related. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.