About IRB
Decisions
Under the Immigration
and Refugee Protection Act, hearings before the IRB
are generally held in public. A case may be heard in private when there
is a serious possibility that the life, liberty and security of a person
will be endangered if the proceeding is held in public, or for reasons
of fairness or public security, as set out in section 166 of the Act.
When
a case is heard
in private,
the decision and reasons are "sanitized".
That is, all the information that could identify the person who is
the subject of the proceedings is
replaced by "XXX".
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