The applicant sought judicial review of a Refugee Appeal Division (RAD) decision confirming that he was not a Convention refugee or person in need of protection.
The RAD had excluded several pieces of newly proposed evidence, concluding the applicant failed to show they were not reasonably available before the Refugee Protection Division (RPD).
The RAD also declined an oral hearing, concluding the admitted new evidence was insufficient to overcome prior findings of fraudulent identity documents.
The Federal Court found the RAD's decision to be reasonable, concluding the RAD had properly applied the statutory test for new evidence and reasonably exercised its discretion to deny an oral hearing based on the scant nature of the newly admitted evidence.
The application for judicial review was dismissed.
