Asylum Claims: Lawyers and Community Coalition

asylum claims: Now that the last of the three lawyers has been slapped with penalties for professional misconduct over their handling of Roma refugee cases, a community coalition has asked Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen to create a special program to grant permanent residency to their affected clients, according to Toronto Star. While the Law Society of Upper Canada sanctions recognize the lawyers' misconduct, they don't assist the victims. By Nicholas Keung Immigration reporter Tues., April 25, 2017 Ottawa is being urged to offer redress to the Roma refugees who were the clients of three disciplined Toronto lawyers and subsequently had their asylum claims rejected by Canada. We need a specific program to provide redress to this group of vulnerable people, said lawyer Maureen Silcoff of the Redress for Roma Refugee Coalition. This month Joseph Stephen Farkas was suspended for six months, ordered to pay the law society 200,000 and placed under supervision by a refugee lawyer for at least one year after a disciplinary tribunal found he had failed to properly supervise his non-lawyer employees when serving some Roma clients. They continue to face harassment and persecution back home. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.