Representative Experience
View some of Fritz Gaerdes’ cases below:
Lasuden v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2021 FC 1428 (CanLII)
Successful judicial review of the refusal of an application for permanent resident status on humanitarian and compassionate grounds because the immigration officer failed to consider a Canadian child’s inability to sponsor his foreign parents was a breach of his Charter equality rights, and that the granting of humanitarian relief to his parents was the only way to remedy this breach.
Go v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2018 FC 1197 (CanLII)
Successful judicial review of decision refusing client’s permanent residence application for misrepresentation
Grewal v. Simard Westlink and others, 2010 BCHRT 51 (CanLII)
Successfully defended client against human rights claim based on religious discrimination
Kaur v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2017 FC 782 (CanLII)
Successful judicial review of decision refusing to issue client with a Canadian work permit
McBride v. Canada (National Defence), 2012 FCA 181 (CanLII)
Successfully argued that Canadian Forces’ failure to disclose medical records to CF members involved in medical release process is a breach of procedural fairness
Melendez v. Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness), 2016 FC 1363 (CanLII)
Successful judicial review of decision referring permanent resident to an inadmissibility hearing for criminality
Mushtaq v Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2016 CanLII 96769 (CA IRB)
Successful appeal of decision declaring client inadmissible to Canada for failing to comply with residency obligation
Phyang v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2014 FC 81 (CanLII)
Successful judicial review of decision refusing client’s application to sponsor wife and child to Canada on humanitarian and compassionate grounds
Rezvyy v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2017 FC 1114 (CanLII)
Successful judicial review of decision declaring client inadmissible to Canada for misrepresentation
Simard Westlink Inc. v. Wallace, 2013 BCSC 2218 (CanLII)
Successful petition for a permanent injunction enforcing employer’s confidentiality agreement against employee
X (Re), 2018 CanLII 144286 (CA IRB)
Successfully argued client is a Convention Refugee who has well-founded fear of persecution as a conscientious objector to military service and for publicly criticizing the Egyptian army and government.
Challenging the constitutionality of exclusion of disabled refugees from receiving government disability grants