SCC won’t hear refugee lawyers’ challenge to ‘jurisprudential guides’ with factual determinations

By Cristin Schmitz ( August 9, 2021, 1:39 PM EDT) -- The Supreme Court of Canada won’t hear an appeal from a Federal Court of Appeal ruling last year which held that the chair of the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) may instruct IRB members to apply to similar cases certain board decisions containing factual determination, which are designated by the IRB’s chair as “jurisprudential guides” (JGs)....