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Our Principal, Mr. Kingsley Jesuorobo, is a proud recipient of many awards honouring his extraordinary professionalism and outstanding accomplishments in legal practice. Mr. Jesuorobo’s record includes the following:

  • He won the case for his first refugee client while he was still a law student at the University of Toronto in April 1994.

  • He won his first jury trial (Insurance Litigation )case and successfully argued for the court to award solicitor and client’s costs in favour of his client in 1996.

  • He won 154 out of 185 asylum cases argued before the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board in 2002.

  • He mounted ground-breaking successful challenges at Canada's Federal Court against mass deportation of illegal Immigrants on short notice in 2003 and 2004 and grabbed news headlines.

  • He won Federal Court stay of deportation for a client who had exhausted all avenues to acquire status in Canada in 2005.

  • He has successfully appealed against numerous negative decisions at the Federal Court - see “Our Cases” section of this website to read up on some of these cases.   

  • He has been profiled by numerous media outlets such as Planet Africa Television, Eagles World, The Afri-Canadian Journal, African Community Profile Magazine. Many of his cases have been reported by CBC Television, Toronto Star, National Post, Metro, Ottawa Citizen, Halifax Daily News, etc.

  • His legal exploits on behalf of immigrants in Canada prompted a local Toronto newspaper, The Nigerian Monitor, to christen him "Senior Advocate of the Masses" (SAM) in 2004.

  • He received the Planet Africa Television Award For Excellence in 2004.

  • He received an Award of Recognition from the Nigerian Canadian Association for his outstanding contribution to the community in 2004.

  • He was invited by York University to give a presentation to students on Canadian Immigration and Refugee Law in 2005.

  • He has trained ten other lawyers so far in Canada.

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