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    First Chief Administrator Appointed To Head New Federal Court Administration Service

    The Honourable Martin Cauchon, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today announced the appointment of Mr. Robert M. Emond as the first Chief Administrator to head the Courts Administration Service, effective July 2, 2003.

    The position of Chief Administrator is established under the Courts Administration Service Act, which will come into force on July 2, 2003. The Act consolidates the administration of the Federal Court of Canada and the Tax Court of Canada into a single arms length agency that will provide administrative services to the Federal Court, the Federal Court of Appeal, the Court Martial Appeal Court and the Tax Court of Canada.

    The establishment of the Service is intended to improve efficiencies, while enhancing the effectiveness of the Courts and respecting their independence. As the chief executive officer of the Courts Administration Service, Mr. Emond will be responsible for the management and administration of all court services.

    With the enactment of the Courts Administration Service Act, the existing two divisions of the Federal Court of Canada will become a separate court of appeal and a trial court. The current Associate Chief Justice of the trial division will become Chief Justice of the Federal Court. The Chief Justice of the Federal Court, who currently presides over the appeal division, will become Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Appeal. continue

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    Suresh v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration)

    The appellant is a Convention refugee from Sri Lanka who has applied for landed immigrant status. In 1995, the Canadian government detained him and commenced deportation proceedings on security grounds, based on the opinion of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service that he was a member and fundraiser of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, an organization alleged to be engaged in terrorist activity in Sri Lanka, and whose members are also subject to torture in Sri Lanka. The Federal Court, Trial Division upheld as reasonable the deportation certificate under s. 40.1 of the Immigration Act and, following a deportation hearing, an adjudicator held that the appellant should be deported. The Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, after notifying the appellant that she was considering issuing an opinion declaring him to be a danger to the security of Canada under s. 53(1)(b) of the Act, issued such an opinion on the basis of an immigration officer's memorandum and concluded that he should be deported. Although the appellant had presented written submissions and documentary evidence to the Minister, he had not been provided with a copy of the immigration officer's memorandum, nor was he provided with an opportunity to respond to it orally or in writing. The appellant applied for judicial review, alleging that: (1) the Minister's decision was unreasonable; (2) the procedures under the Act were unfair; and (3) the Act infringed ss. 7, 2(b) and 2(d) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The application for judicial review was dismissed on all grounds. The Federal Court of Appeal upheld that decision. read full text


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