Chair
Shi Sheng Cai (Shoosh), Senior Associate, Copeland Ashcroft
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour
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Best Practices for Presenting and Reviewing Evidence
- General
- Why and when should you request the file and examples
- What you can get: INZ SOPs
- When there’s no time: other sources of information
- Escalation when INZ withhold
- IPT Appeals/ discretionary requests
- Overview
- Psychological evidence
- Examples
Presented by Richard Small, Director, Pacific Legal Ltd
Learning Objectives:
- Identify best practices for requesting and reviewing INZ files and SOPs
- Evaluate alternative evidence sources and escalation options
- Understand the use of psychological evidence in IPT appeals and discretionary requests
Presenters
Shi Sheng Cai (Shoosh), Senior Associate, Copeland Ashcroft
Shi Sheng Cai (Shoosh) is a Senior Associate at Copeland Ashcroft and regularly acts for employers to help with immigration matters. He has over 7 years of work experience in the immigration sector including experience in the areas of global mobility, corporate immigration, investor migration and expertise with complex New Zealand immigration matters. Shoosh is a member of the Law Association Immigration Committee and is an author for Thomson Reuters Human Rights Law resource. You will find Shoosh "a great guy to deal with". He enjoys working with government officers and is a critical thinker with an insightful legal mind.
Richard Small, Director, Pacific Legal Ltd
Richard Small has over 22 years of specialist experience as a lawyer in his field. He is a member of the Auckland District Law Society Immigration and Refugee Law Committee. He has held various New Zealand Law Society Immigration Committee positions and is often quoted in national media as an immigration expert. He co-presented the New Zealand Law Society submission to Parliament on what became the Immigration Act 2009. Richard served on the Board of Directors of the New Zealand Association of Migration Investment (NZAMI) from 2015 to 2018, the largest peak body for immigration advisers in New Zealand. He was the Association's Policy Chair in 2017/18 and played a key role in submissions on a range of major changes to instructions and processes during that time. Pacific Legal ltd Richard's firm has offices in Auckland and Wellington and covers a wide range of immigration work. The firm is known both for its work individual cases but also in its reform work. The firm has won local and international recognition for its work. It covers the full ambit of immigration work from humanitarian to business and investment visas. Richard is now based in the Auckland office and leads of team of 5 staff who each have considerable experience in their own fields.
