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Date: 19990811


Docket: IMM-1452-98

BETWEEN:

     BHUPINDER SINGH CHEEMA


Applicant


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THE MINISTER OF CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION


Respondent

     RESONS FOR ORDER

ROTHSTEIN J.A.

[1]      In this judicial review I do not find the panel"s brief reasons for concluding the applicant"s evidence "generally untrusthworthy and not credible" to be coherent. The panel"s reasons do not relate to the evidence before it.

[2]      While I have some doubt about the applicant"s evidence myself, it is not for the Court to provide reasons to support the panel"s decision.

[3]      The judicial review will be allowed and the matter remitted to a different panel for redetermination.

     "Marshall Rothstein"

     Prothonotary

Toronto, Ontario

August 11, 1999

     FEDERAL COURT OF CANADA

                    

     Names of Counsel and Solicitors of Record

COURT NO:                          IMM-1452-98
STYLE OF CAUSE:                      BHUPINDER SINGH CHEEMA

    

                             - and -
                             THE MINISTER OF CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION

                            

DATE OF HEARING:                  WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1999
PLACE OF HEARING:                  TORONTO, ONTARIO
REASONS FOR ORDER BY:              ROTHSTEIN J.A.

DATED:                          WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1999

APPEARANCES:                      Ms. Sapru

                                 For the Applicant

                             Mr. Stephen H. Gold

                                 For the Respondent

SOLICITORS OF RECORD:              Max Berger and Associates

                             1033 Bay Street, Suite 207
                             Toronto, Ontario
                             M5S 3A5
                                 For the Applicant

                              Morris Rosenberg

                             Deputy Attorney General of Canada

                                 For the Respondent

                             FEDERAL COURT OF CANADA

                                 Date:19990811

                        

         Docket: IMM-1452-98

                             Between:

                             BHUPINDER SINGH CHEEMA

     Applicant

                             - and -

                             THE MINISTER OF CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION

                        

     Respondent

                    

                            

        

                             REASONS FOR ORDER
    

                            

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