Practice Notice Number 1: Appellant’s memorandum and requirements of rules 3(3)(g)(ii) and 9(2)(f)(ii) of the Refugee Appeal Division Rules

Rules 3(3)(g) and 9(2)(f) of the Refugee Appeal Division Rules state:

3(3) The appellant's record must contain the following documents, on consecutively numbered pages, in the following order. . . .

  (g) a memorandum that includes full and detailed submissions regarding

  • (i) the errors that are the grounds of the appeal,
  • (ii) where the errors are located in the written reasons for the Refugee Protection Division's decision that the appellant is appealing or in the transcript or in any audio or other electronic recording of the Refugee Protection Division hearing . . . . 

9(2) . . . [T] he Minister may provide...the appellant's record containing the following documents, on consecutively numbered pages, in the following order. . . .

   (f) a memorandum that includes full and detailed submissions regarding

  • (i) the errors that are the grounds of the appeal,
  • (ii) where the errors are located in the written reasons for the Refugee Protection Division's decision that the Minister is appealing or in the transcript or in any audio or other electronic recording of the Refugee Protection Division hearing . . . . 

The following form was developed to help parties to provide the information specified in rules 3(3)(g)(ii) and 9(2)(f)(ii).

Although the Refugee Appeal Division Rules do not require that this form be completed, all of the information specified in rules 3(3)(g)(ii) and 9(2)(f)(ii) must be provided to the Refugee Appeal Division.

This practice notice comes into effect on January 22, 2014.



Deborah Morrish
Deputy Chairperson's Office
Refugee Appeal Division

 

January 22, 2014