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BACKLOGGERS LITIGATION
1. Litigants whose files were not closed.
DoJ and has come to terms and expect to sign the agreement on Monday. CIC agrees to:
a. send out requests for additional items and the medical forms within 21 days of the signing of the
settlement; i.e., by September 17th;
b. to finalize the applications within 180 days of having received the up-dated documents and other items;
c. to request only those forms which are actually required;
d to process the files expeditiously and
e. to issue the visas as soon as the file is ready for visa-issuance.
2. Litigants whose files s 87.4 has closed
Justice Barnes said that he has not read the motion seeking to enforce the Agreement and will not do so until after he returns to Ottawa on September 4th. Next week both parties will summarize the arguments given that only those whose files were closed are in need of the Court's intervention.
DoJ repeated -- and put in writing this past week -- that, if our motion is dismissed, it will permit our litigants' cases to join the 87.4 challenge. I will just have to file material making that request. So, even if we lose the motion, our case will continue to move forward.
3. Post-June 14th litigants
DoJ repeated the request that the Court rule on whether those who joined the litigation after June 14th are covered by the Agreement. Their position is that they are not. Justice Barnes said that he would rule on this issue when he decides the motion after September 4th. Thus, additional litigants may continue to join our group but, whether, if our motion prevails, they will be covered remains unknown. However, if they are not, their cases will become a part of the 87.4 litigation.
4. 87.4 Litigation
The organization of this litigation remains in disarray. Justice Barnes, however, clearly favours managed litigation (such as our litigation) over a class-action. Justice Barnes will check with the Court Administrator to see whether this issue may be argued when he is in Toronto the last three weeks of November. If so, it will be on one or more Fridays; i.e., no earlier than November 16th.
By August 31st, various counsel will be filing motions, asking the Court to prevent CIC from acting on 87.4. The key issue will be the scope of the injunction itself. Applicants' counsel argue that it should encompass all those whose files were closed, whereas DoJ argues that it should only include those who have joined the litigation.
In summation, we will not know where our litigation stands until mid-September. If we prevail, all will be fine for those who joined before June 14th. Whether it will be for those who joined afterwards will be decided at that time. Those whose files the Court does not order CIC to process immediately will become a part of the so-called class-action lawsuit. The shape of the 87.4 litigation will not likely be known until late November but the scope of the injunction, barring CIC from implementing 87.4, will likely be known in late September.