Date: 19980227
Docket: IMM-1541-97
BETWEEN:
VICTOR OWUSU JR.
Applicant
- and -
THE MINISTER OF CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION
Respondent
REASONS FOR ORDER
ROTHSTEIN, J.:
[1] The arguments presented by both counsel have been coherent and persuasive. In spite of the very able presentation of counsel for the applicant, I am unable to say that the panel in this case did not have evidence upon which it could base its findings. In this case as in many cases, documentary evidence contains excerpts that are favourable and unfavourable to an applicant. It is for the panel to weigh that evidence and the Court will not interfere except in very unusual circumstances. I am not satisfied that those unusual circumstances exist here.
This is a credibility determination made by the panel and the Court will not interfere. The judicial review is dismissed.
"Marshall E. Rothstein"
Judge
Toronto, Ontario
February 27, 1998
FEDERAL COURT OF CANADA
Date: 19980227
Docket: IMM-1541-97
BETWEEN:
VICTOR OWUSU JR.
Applicant
- and -
THE MINISTER OF CITIZENSHIP
AND IMMIGRATION
Respondent
REASONS FOR ORDER
FEDERAL COURT OF CANADA
Names of Counsel and Solicitors of Record
DOCKET: IMM-1541-97
| STYLE OF CAUSE: VICTOR OWUSU JR. |
- and -
| THE MINISTER OF CITIZENSHIP |
| AND IMMIGRATION |
DATE OF HEARING: FEBRUARY 27, 1998
PLACE OF HEARING: TORONTO, ONTARIO
REASONS FOR ORDER BY: ROTHSTEIN, J.
DATED: FEBRUARY 27, 1998
APPEARANCES: Mr. Muneshwar Deopaul
For the Applicant
Mr. Jeremiah Eastman
For the Respondent
SOLICITORS OF RECORD: Mr. Muneshwar Deopaul, B.A., L.L.B.
Barrister and Solicitor
106 Humber College Blvd.
Suite 202
Etobicoke, Ontario
M9V 4E4
For the Applicant
George Thomson
Deputy Attorney General
of Canada
For the Respondent