Refugee Claimant: Ebrahim Toure and Quasi-Judicial Hearing

refugee claimant: Jared Will, who is representing Ebrahim Toure a failed refugee claimant who has been behind bars since February 2013 because the government has been unable to deport him objected to the fact that the government's representative, who acts as a kind of prosecutor at the quasi-judicial hearing, had not disclosed evidence cited to justify Toure's continued detention, according to Toronto Star. Suzy Kim, the board member hearing the case, appeared to be taken aback by Will's objection. Andrew Francis Wallace / Toronto Star By Brendan Kennedy Staff Reporter Fri., June 16, 2017 The relative fairness of monthly detention reviews for immigration detainees was called into question Thursday in a testy exchange between the lawyers for a West African man who has been in maximum-security jail without charge for nearly four-and-a-half years and an Immigration and Refugee Board member. Kim said the government's oral submissions are regularly accepted as evidence in detention reviews, which are intended to be less formal than court proceedings. Article Continued Below I don't have disclosure obligation because I'm not detaining anyone, replied Will, visibly frustrated. Kim asked whether Will had disclosed the notes he had in front of him, for instance. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.