While the normal procedure upon finding a reviewable error on judicial review is to send the matter back for redetermination, in certain circumstances this Court has deviated. In Popov, above, this Court held that it need not send the matter back for redetermination where convinced that no real purpose would be served by doing so. In Abasalizadeh v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) (2004), 42 Imm. L.R. (3d) 224 (F.C.), at paragraph 24, this Court noted “[t]he authorities indicate that where natural justice or procedural fairness has been denied, a remedy may be withheld where the decision maker would have been bound in law to reject the application on the evidence before [them].”
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