29 Mar 2018
PATEL v MINISTER OF IMMIGRATION [2018] NZHC 577
- Citation
- [2018] NZHC 577
- Court
- High Court
Leave was granted only on narrow legal questions: (1) whether the Tribunal erred in treating the applicant's omission of the 2009 divorce proceeding as 'concealment' without assessing the applicant's knowledge or intention in circumstances where she had disclosed the alleged marriage and asserted it was forged; and (2) whether prior counsel's failure to adduce evidence about the marriage's validity caused procedural unfairness; all other challenges to the Tribunal's factual findings about the marriage and requests for further forensic inquiry were not shown to be seriously arguable and leave…