title: Federal court allows application for judicial review of HIV-positive woman from Jamaica.
abstract: On 26 January 2011, the Federal Court allowed an application for judicial review by Ferona Elaine Mings-Edwards, who based her application for permanent residence on humanitarian and compassionate grounds, including the hardship that she claimed that she would face in Jamaica from her former domestic partner and because of her HIV-positive status.
authors.affiliation: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network. schu@aidslaw.ca
authors.forename: Sandra Ka Hon
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Chu
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D004641:Emigration and Immigration / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005260:Female; D006679:HIV Seropositivity; D006801:Humans; D007563:Jamaica / Q000208:ethnology; D018454:Spouses; D013240:Stereotyping