The Court dismissed an appeal by an accused from an order of committal and application for judicial review of the decision of the Minister of Justice to surrender the Appellant to the Republic of Hungary. The Court found that the extradition judge’s questions, although of limited relevance, did not give rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias and the Minister of Justice had not erred in consulting with the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.

26. December 2007 0
Administrative law – Ministerial decisions – Extradition – Judicial review – Stay of proceedings – Evidence – Reasonable apprehension of bias – Procedural requirements and fairness Hungary v. Horvath, [2007] O.J. No. 4077, Ontario Court of Appeal, October 24, 2007, M.J. Moldaver, J.C. MacPherson and P.S. Rouleau JJ.A. The accused, Horvath, appealed from on order ...

The application for judicial review by Maisonneuve of the decision rendered by the Minister of Justice of Canada ordering his surrender to the United States of America was allowed where the Court found that the Minister’s interpretation of evidence regarding the participation of the US and Canadian police authorities was patently unreasonable

26. June 2007 0
Administrative law – Decisions of administrative tribunals – Ministerial orders – Extradition – Investigations – Judicial review – Jurisdiction – Procedural requirements and fairness – Failure to provide reasons – Evidence Maisonneuve v. Canada (Minister of Justice), [2006] Q.J. No. 4054, Quebec Court of Appeal, July 31, 2006, François Pelletier J.A., François Doyon J.A. and Lise ...