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New Zealand Case Law

Immigration status/visa impact
  • 11 Jun 2018

    SOUTH v SOUTH [2018] NZHC 1369

    Citation
    [2018] NZHC 1369
    Court
    High Court

    Leave was granted only for the limited, post‑judgment update that was material to the child's welfare — the fact the appellant was granted a three‑year work visa — because that evidence arose after the Family Court decision and increased certainty about the appellant's ability to remain in New Zealand for the immediate years critical to the child. All other proposed evidence (immigration solicitor opinion, further employment detail and financial evidence) was refused because it was not new or not material, risked unnecessarily widening and complicating the rehearing, and would not materially…