What is the impact of the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in McClellan L.J. on immigration issues?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Caldwell v. Caldwell, 1985 CanLII 805 (BC SC):
In doing so, McClellan L.J.S.C. followed an unreported Ontario decision [Rigatti v. Rigatti, 23rd April 1969] which had held: “… that the desirability of expediting and facilitating immigration was a special circumstance which the court could consider in assessing whether it would be in the public interest for the decree to be made absolute.”
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