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Two hours on the 2026 immigration case law that matters most in practice, from the Immigration and Refugee Board to the Supreme Court of Canada, and how to use it in your submissions.
Karina Juma and Victor Ing
$60
2 hours
Attend Live Online and On-Demand Recording
This CPD course reviews the most notable 2026 immigration case law and what each decision means for your practice. Karina Juma and Victor Ing open with practical pointers on researching case law and using jurisprudence effectively in submissions on immigration applications, then work through the year’s key decisions from the Immigration and Refugee Board, including the Refugee Appeal Division and the Immigration Appeal Division, the Federal Court, the Federal Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada, along with the occasional provincial case that shapes immigration practice. For each decision they discuss its implications for application preparation and advocacy. The course closes with a live question and answer period. It is built for RCICs, immigration lawyers and paralegals who rely on current jurisprudence in their submissions and hearings.
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Karina is a Canadian immigration and refugee lawyer at Heron Law Offices, where she began her career as the firm’s first articling student under Principal Lawyer Will Tao. She was called to the bar in British Columbia in May 2025. During her articles she worked on judicial reviews, inadmissibility matters, responses to procedural fairness letters, temporary and permanent residence applications, immigration appeals, reconsideration requests and border enforcement actions, and she continues to build a broad immigration practice with a particular interest in refugee and humanitarian cases.
Karina completed a joint law and master’s program in 2024, earning her law degree from the Common Law Section of the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, magna cum laude, alongside graduate studies at Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, specializing in health, displacement and humanitarian policy. She holds a Joint Honours Bachelor of Social Sciences in History and Political Science from the University of Ottawa, summa cum laude. She co-authored a book on newcomer settlement published by the University of Ottawa Press and has written on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms for the Canadian Yearbook of Human Rights. Karina works in English and French and can also assist clients in Gujarati and Hindi.
Victor began practicing immigration law and working at a national law firm in 2010. Victor advises clients on a broad range of immigration processes and applications, including permanent residency applications, study and work permit applications, spousal appeals and detention hearings. He has represented clients in Federal Court and at all levels of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, and has appeared in the BC Supreme Court as an expert witness in immigration law matters.
Victor is a frequent writer and presenter on immigration topics and has been a regular contributor to the South Asian Post, providing insight on current immigration trends and changes. He has served as Co-Secretary for the British Columbia Immigration Section of the Canadian Bar Association, with a mandate to foster continuing legal education for immigration practitioners and to facilitate dialogue between immigration lawyers and the government departments with whom they work to share information and expertise.
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