Tuesday, 24 March 2026
Early Bird Discount ends 19 Dec 2025
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how criminal, employment, and family law interact with immigration law in practical legal scenarios
- Apply legal strategies across disciplines to better advise and protect migrant clients
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Chair
Shi Sheng Cai, Partner, Ashcroft Mitchell McGregor
Intersection of Immigration Law and other disciplines of law
- Criminal law: deportations, s 106 affidavits
- Employment law: AEWV work visas, exploitation
- Family law: Partnership visas, family violence visas, care of children
Presented by Pooja Sundar, Partner, Dalley Sundar
Presenters
Shi Sheng Cai, Partner, Ashcroft MitchellMcGregorShi Sheng Cai (Shoosh) is a Partner at Ashcroft Mitchell McGregor and regularly acts for employers to help with immigration matters. He has over 9 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.
Pooja Sundar, Partner, DalleySundar
Pooja Sundar is a leading immigration and family lawyer known for her expertise in complex matters involving migrants, refugees, and families navigating sensitive legal and immigration issues. She holds a Master of Laws (Honours) and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Auckland and is a Legal Aid–registered practitioner. Her work spans all areas of immigration law - from visas and residence appeals to refugee and protection claims - alongside family proceedings where immigration and family-violence issues intersect. Pooja combines deep legal expertise with strong cultural intelligence and is frequently called on for high-stakes and precedent-setting matters. She has driven reform on family-violence visa processes and trauma-informed refugee interviews, while her pro bono work has enabled many migrants and survivors of family violence to secure safety and lawful status. A member of several professional and community bodies, Pooja is widely regarded as a leading voice in the evolution of New Zealand’s immigration system.
