Stripping of citizenship, contd

By: Law is Cool · November 26, 2009 · Filed Under Administrative Law, Civil Rights · Add Comment 

Father was never charged with war crime, family says

The family of Helmut Oberlander says he was never a Nazi and he has not been charged by the federal government with any war crime.

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Stripping of citizenship

By: Law is Cool · November 19, 2009 · Filed Under Administrative Law · Add Comment 

Accused war criminal wins chance to keep citizenship

An appeal court has ordered the federal cabinet to revisit its decision to strip accused Nazi war criminal Helmut Oberlander of his Canadian citizenship.

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Litigious

By: Law is Cool · August 25, 2009 · Filed Under Civil Rights, International Law · Add Comment 

Ottawa to launch Supreme Court appeal of Khadr ruling

The federal government will go to the Supreme Court of Canada to appeal a court order to bring Omar Khadr home from a U.S. military prison, according to a CBC report.

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Government loses again in Khadr case

By: Law is Cool · August 14, 2009 · Filed Under Civil Rights · Add Comment 

Ottawa must seek Khadr’s return: Court

The Federal Court of Appeal ruled today that the government offered no compelling reasons why it should not comply with an order to request that Khadr, 22, be repatriated to Canada.

Government argued that foreign policy is its exclusive prerogative. The court held that a court’s order to ask for Khadr’s repatriation is a “relatively small intrusion into the conduct of international relations.”

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