What standard of review applies to a Minister's decision to surrender?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Republic of India v. Singh, 2007 BCCA 157 (CanLII):
The parties agreed that the patently unreasonable standard of review applies to the Minister’s decision to surrender, but that the correctness standard should be applied to the Minister’s parallel role of considering Charter issues raised at the surrender stage: Hanson v. Canada (Minister of Justice), 2005 BCCA 440, 195 C.C.C. (3d) 46 at para. 20.
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