4 December 2007 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority | Topic(s): Christian - Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Exclusion clauses - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) | Countries: Iraq - New Zealand
5 September 2007 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Court of Appeal | Topic(s): Crimes against humanity - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Exclusion clauses - Extradition - Prosecution vs persecution - War crimes | Countries: New Zealand - Rwanda
16 April 2007 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority | Topic(s): Burden of proof - Cessation clauses - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Exclusion clauses - Multiple nationality - Safe third country - Standard of proof | Countries: New Zealand - Somalia
2 March 2007 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority | Topic(s): Changes of circumstances in home country - Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Exclusion clauses - Non-state agents of persecution - Persecution based on political opinion - Persecution of family members - Social group persecution | Countries: Nepal - New Zealand
21 November 2006 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority | Topic(s): Abduction - Country of origin information (COI) - Exclusion clauses - Non-state agents of persecution - Persecution based on political opinion - Sunni | Countries: Iraq - New Zealand
The decision was subsequently judicially reviewed by the High Court: X & Y v. Refugee Status Appeals Authority, CIV-2006-404-4213 (17 December 2007); and the High Courts decision was appealed before the Court of Appeal: X v Refugee Status Appeals Authority [2009] NZCA 488 (20 October 2009).
19 April 2006 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority | Topic(s): Crimes against humanity - Exclusion clauses - Persecution based on political opinion - Tamil | Countries: New Zealand
1 August 2003 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Crimes against humanity - Death penalty - Exclusion clauses - Persecution based on political opinion - Political groups - Political parties - Prosecution vs persecution - Serious non-political crime - Terrorism | Countries: Algeria - New Zealand
30 November 1999 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Exclusion clauses - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) - Non-state agents of persecution - Persecution based on political opinion | Countries: New Zealand - Peru
26 August 1999 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Credibility assessment - Deportation / Forcible return - Exclusion clauses - Muslim - Passports - Persecution based on political opinion - Witnesses | Countries: Algeria - New Zealand
9 October 1997 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: High Court | Topic(s): Crimes against humanity - Derivative status - Exclusion clauses | Countries: New Zealand - Peru
