Canada Immigration Case-law Canada, Karadag, IMMIGRATION — Refugee status — Procedure by Joy Stephen, Polinsys

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IMMIGRATION — Refugee status — Procedure — Applicant’s claim for refugee protection was rejected — Member and applicant were in same room for hearing, but interpreter was in another city and telephone connections were terrible — Many communications to and from interpreter were inaudible or indecipherable or misunderstood — There were concerns about arrest warranted that were not put to applicant — Applicant sought judicial review — Application granted — Member ascribed some of answers given by applicant that in reading transcript were clearly misunderstood or later corrected — Given critical nature of arrest warrants it was error not to put concerns to applicant