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New Zealand


This National Site collects leading decisions from the New Zealand Refugee Status Appeals Authority (RSAA). High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court decisions are located in the Core Collection. The National Coordinators for New Zealand (RSAA) are:

Adrienne Anderson

BA/LLB(Hons), University of Auckland, New Zealand; Formerly Legal Associate at the RSAA.

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Rodger Haines

Rodger Haines QC is lecturer in Immigration and Refugee Law at the Faculty of Law, the University of Auckland, New Zealand and has co-taught papers in Comparative Asylum Law with Professor James C Hathaway at the University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor. He is also Deputy Chairperson of the New Zealand Refugee Status Appeals Authority and has written many of the Authority's principal decisions.

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New Zealand's Most Recent Decision

The most recent decision added to the New Zealand site is Refugee Appeal No. 76339, a decision rendered in New Zealand by the Refugee Status Appeals Authority on Friday, April 23, 2010, involving an applicant from Romania. A brief summary of the facts of the case is: Romanian appellant feared serious harm in prison, if he was to return and carry out his sentence for fraud, at the hands of powerful individuals whom he had denounced as corrupt.

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