A Guyanese woman late last year was given a reprieve in her bid to gain refugee status in Canada by a judge who set aside the initial denial of her request by the Immigration and Refugee Board after she alleged that she was escaping an abusive husband in Guyana.
“This court’s judgment is that the application for judicial review is allowed, the decision of the board is set aside and the matter is referred to a different panel of the board for redetermination,” Judge John A O’Keefe said in his ruling late last December.
In its ruling, the immigration board had determined that the woman was not a
