Seminar ID

ION-2014-10-25A

Date and time

Friday, October 25, 2013 at 13:00 EST see it in calendar

Attendance

Languages

• in English

CPD hours

Venue

Homewood Suites by Hilton Vaughan618 Applewood Crescent
Vaughan
L4K 4B4

Capacity: 60

Description

Representing client in Detention Review hearings before the Immigration Division (Joel Sandaluk)

• Who is typically detained and why
• What can you do to avoid your client having taken into immigration custody
• How can you best represent your client before the 48 hours Detention Review hearing
• Where are clients detained and why?

Detention Review hearings:
• what is the process and what are the legal tests involved
• what are the relevant considerations of board members
• who is a suitable bonds person and how is a bonds persons’ solvency calculated

Evidence at a Detention Review hearing:
• The outcome of a Detention Review hearing and how to execute an order for release
• Special cases related to immigration arrest and detention
 Long-term detention cases
 Security cases
 Identity cases

Ethical considerations:
• What does it mean that arguments are made based upon ‘information and belief’?
• What information must be disclosed?
• What does it mean to ‘indemnify’ a bondsperson?
• Competency