For the second time, a Federal Court judge has overturned a decision by the Immigration and Refugee Board denying an Ottawa refugee claimant asylum. In a decision dated Oct. 1, Justice Mary Gleason ruled that the reasoning in the decision of the IRB member who turned Gabino Zacarias down last year was “so erroneous that it must be set aside.” […] The IRB member’s findings, Gleason found, were “based on impermissible conjecture and conclusions that contradict the evidence before the board and thus cannot stand.” […] Gleason found that “overly subjective conclusions based on an individual’s posture or perceived attitude are not within the appropriate purview of a credibility assessment.”
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