The applicant sought judicial review of a PRRA officer's decision refusing his application for protection from Iraq.
The officer had dismissed the applicant's photographic evidence as insufficient without holding an oral hearing.
The Federal Court allowed the application, finding that the officer made veiled credibility determinations about the applicant and the photographic evidence under the guise of an insufficiency analysis.
As credibility was central to the decision, the failure to hold an oral hearing breached procedural fairness.
The matter was remitted for redetermination by a different officer.
