Schier v Removal Review Authority - [1999] 1 NZLR 703

Immigration — Removal order — Persons unlawfully in New Zealand for over eight years had children who were New Zealand citizens — Appeal against removal on exceptional humanitarian grounds — Whether right of children to remain in New Zealand constituted exceptional humanitarian grounds — Whether new evidence admissible before Court on appeal from Removal Review Authority — Immigration Act 1987, ss 50 and 63B(1).

Practice and procedure — Appeals to High Court — Appeal on point of law from statutory tribunal — Whether fresh evidence to be admitted — Immigration Act 1987, s 115A.