Ye v Minister of Immigration - [2010] 1 NZLR 104

Immigration — Removal order — Cancellation — Whether officer obliged to consider any particular circumstances — Humanitarian interview — Overstayers with New Zealand citizen children — Whether and to what extent interests of children to be considered — Immigration Act 1987, ss 47(3) and 58.

Administrative law — Natural justice — Overstayers with New Zealand citizen children — Whether and when officers to make separate inquiries regarding children — Immigration Act 1987, s 58.

Practice and procedure — Parties — Judicial review of immigration decisions — Overstayers with New Zealand citizen children — Whether and when children to be separately represented in court proceedings — Whether children to be parties.