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COMPETENCE EQUITE [2 records]

Record 1 2024-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Courts
  • Practice and Procedural Law
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
DEF

In a common-law judicial system, the power to hear certain civil actions according to the procedure of the court of chancery, and to resolve them according to equitable rules.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tribunaux
  • Droit judiciaire
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)

Spanish

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Record 2 2004-04-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
  • Citizenship and Immigration
CONT

Any appeal is heard by the Immigration Appeal Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board. They will review the law and facts of the case and they have an equitable jurisdiction to refuse deportation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
OBS

Il peut s'agir entre autres du pouvoir discrétionnaire qu'exercent les commissaires de la CISR en matière de considérations d'ordre humanitaire.

OBS

C'est l'usage à la Justice de garder «equity» pour rendre cette notion anglaise.

Spanish

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