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3 unusual facts about Federal Court of Canada


1992 in LGBT rights

27 — The Federal Court of Canada orders the Canadian military to stop discriminating against gays.

Jim Gould

His attorneys then sought a Federal Court injunction to prevent CSIS from interrogating their client in the future.

Mohammad Ashraf Siddiqui

In January 2007, Federal Court judge Michael L. Phelan ruled that it was patently unreasonable for the IRB to have suggested that the MQM was a terrorist organisation in Siddiqui's case, when they had offered the opposite opinion in the earlier case.


Ken Courchene

Justice Paul Rouleau of the Federal Court of Canada found Courchene and the other councillors in contempt of court for their decision, remarking that he had seldom seen such brazen contempt for authority.

Mohamed Harkat

On March 22, 2005, Federal Court judge Eleanor Dawson ruled that the security certificate binding Harkat was reasonable.


see also

Michael Phelan

Michael L. Phelan (born 1947), judge of the Federal Court of Canada