Date: 19981008
Docket: IMM-4613-97
BETWEEN:
PARAMALINGAM SOTHILINGAM
Applicant
- and -
THE MINISTER OF CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION
Respondent
REASONS FOR JUDGMENT
McGILLIS J.
[1] Despite the able submissions of counsel for the applicant, I have not been persuaded that the Immigration and Refugee Board ("Board") committed any error in rejecting the applicant's claim to Convention refugee status on the basis that he lacked credibility. Although one of the Board's examples given in support of its conclusion was based on a misapprehension of the evidence, its other findings were reasonably open to it. In the circumstances, the Board's decision is not patently unreasonable, and my intervention in this matter is not warranted.
[2] The application for judicial review is dismissed. The case raises no serious question of general importance.
"D. McGillis"
Judge
TORONTO, ONTARIO
October 8, 1998
FEDERAL COURT OF CANADA
Names of Counsel and Solicitors of Record
COURT NO: IMM-4613-97
| STYLE OF CAUSE: PARAMALINGAM SOTHILINGAM |
- and -
| THE MINISTER OF CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION |
DATE OF HEARING: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1998
PLACE OF HEARING: TORONTO, ONTARIO
REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY: McGILLIS, J.
DATED: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1998
APPEARANCES:
Mr. John Guoba
For the Applicant
Ms. Claire le Riche
For the Respondent
SOLICITORS OF RECORD:
| John Guoba |
| Barrister & Solicitor |
802-1 St. Clair Ave. E.
| Toronto, Ontario |
| M4T 2V7 |
For the Applicant
Morris Rosenberg
Deputy Attorney General
of Canada
For the Respondent
FEDERAL COURT OF CANADA
Date: 19981008
Docket: IMM-4613-97
Between:
| PARAMALINGAM SOTHILINGAM |
Applicant
- and -
| THE MINISTER OF CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION |
Respondent
REASONS FOR JUDGMENT