Application for judicial review.
11 November 2010 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: High Court | Topic(s): Convention against Torture (CAT) - Credibility assessment - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Mental health - Persons with disabilities | Countries: New Zealand - Sri Lanka
17 September 2010 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: High Court | Topic(s): Benefit of the doubt - Credibility assessment - Jurisdiction - Persecution based on political opinion - Prosecution vs persecution | Countries: New Zealand - Romania
16 August 2010 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: High Court | Topic(s): Asylum-seekers - Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Witnesses | Countries: New Zealand
4 June 2010 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: High Court | Topic(s): Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) - Ogaden - Racial / Ethnic persecution - Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness | Countries: New Zealand - Somalia
Application for interim orders restraining Immigration New Zealand from executing a removal.
19 December 2008 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: High Court | Topic(s): Deportation / Forcible return - Immigration Detention - Rejected asylum-seekers - Voluntary repatriation | Countries: New Zealand - Syrian Arab Republic
26 August 2008 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: High Court | Topic(s): Credibility assessment - Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription - Persecution based on political opinion | Countries: Chad - New Zealand
28 May 2008 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: High Court | Topic(s): Christian - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) | Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - New Zealand
Application for interim order that a determination not be made as to cancellation of the refugee status, pending judicial review.
30 March 2008 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: High Court | Topic(s): Crimes against humanity - Criminal justice - Exclusion clauses - Genocide - Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness | Countries: New Zealand - Rwanda
Application for interim order under s 8(2) Judicature Amendment Act 1972 against removal pending determination of the judicial review proceedings.
19 March 2008 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: High Court | Topic(s): Christian - Credibility assessment - Criminal justice - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) - Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness | Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - New Zealand
Application for judicial review of a decision of the RSAA: Refugee Appeal Nos. 74796 & 74797, 74796 & 74797 (19 April 2006). The judgment was subsequently appealed before the Court of Appeal: X v Refugee Status Appeals Authority [2009] NZCA 488 (20 October 2009).
17 December 2007 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: High Court | Topic(s): Burden of proof - Credibility assessment - Crimes against humanity - Criminal justice - Exclusion clauses - Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness - Serious non-political crime - Standard of proof | Countries: New Zealand - Sri Lanka