Summaries Sunday

Summaries of selected recent cases are provided each week to Slaw by Maritime Law Book. Every Sunday we present a precis of the latest summaries, a fuller version of which can be found on MLB-Slaw Selected Case Summaries at cases.slaw.ca.

This week’s summaries concern: Aliens – Criminal Law – Statutes – Bankruptcy – Constitutional Law – Highways – Motor Vehicles

Tran v. Canada (Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness) 2015 FCA 237
Aliens – Criminal Law – Statutes
Summary: Tran, a citizen of Vietnam, was a permanent resident in Canada. In 2012, he was convicted of producing marijuana, and received a 12-month conditional sentence of imprisonment. A delegate of the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, under s. 44(2) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA), referred Tran to a hearing before the Immigration Division of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Board, to determine whether he should be found inadmissible on account of serious criminality (s. 36(1)(a)). Tran applied for judicial review.

Moore (Bankrupt), Re 2015 SCC 52
Bankruptcy – Constitutional Law – Highways – Motor Vehicles
Summary: Highway 407 in Ontario was an open-access private toll highway operated by 407 ETR Concession Co. Ltd. (“ETR”). Under s. 22(4) of the Highway 407 Act (“407 Act”), upon receipt of a notice of a person’s failure to pay a toll debt, the Registrar of Motor Vehicles had to (“shall”) refuse to issue or renew the debtor’s vehicle permit. Moore accumulated a toll debt of $34,977.06. ETR notified the Registrar of Moore’s failure to pay the toll debt. The Registrar refused to renew Moore’s licence plates for his vehicle.