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The court was created on July 2, 2003, by the Courts Administration Service Act when it and the Federal Court of Appeal were split from their predecessor, the Federal Court of Canada (which had been created June 1, 1971, through the enactment of the Federal Court Act, subsequently renamed the Federal Courts Act).
The Federal Court of Canada, which succeeded the Exchequer Court of Canada in 1971, was a national court of Canada that had limited jurisdiction to hear certain types of disputes arising under the federal government 's legislative jurisdiction. Originally composed of two divisions, the Appellate Division and the Trial Division, in 2003 the ...
Federal Court of Canada. At the Federal Court, Justice Phelan decisively quashed the Commissioner's decision. First, the Court found that the "form and substance" formulation and analysis of Amazon.com's claims departed from the approach articulated by the Supreme Court of Canada in Free World Trust v Électro Santé Inc and Whirlpool Corp v ...
In April 2014, the court ruled in favour of the Métis people in a case involving extending protections to Aboriginal peoples in Canada who lived off-reserve.. In September 2015, the court dismissed an appeal by the Government of Canada over a ruling by the Federal Court that found a rule banning the Niqāb at citizenship ceremonies to be unconstitutional.
Canada (AG) v Ward, [1993] 2 S.C.R. 689 is a leading immigration case decided by the Supreme Court of Canada on test for determining a "well-founded fear of persecution" in order to make a claim for Convention refugee status. The Court held that persecution need not originate from the state, and that mere inability to provide protection is ...
Charkaoui. In 2003, Adil Charkaoui, a permanent resident in Canada since 1995, was arrested and imprisoned under a security certificate issued by the Solicitor General of Canada (then Wayne Easter) and the Minister of Immigration (then Denis Coderre ). The evidence upon which the certificate was issued is secret, disclosed neither to Charkaoui ...
Indalex Limited (Re), 2011 ONCA 265 - priority of claims of pension fund in a company bankruptcy; leave to appeal granted by the Supreme Court of Canada, December 1, 2011. Bedford v. Canada, 2012 ONCA 186 - challenge of prostitution laws under the Charter; See also. List of Supreme Court of Canada cases
The Court began by canvassing the recent history of administrative law decisions on the standard of review, including Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 963 v New Brunswick Liquor Corp, Crevier v Quebec (AG), Canada (Director of Investigation and Research) v Southam Inc and Pushpanathan v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration ...