Panapa v Chief Executive of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

COURT OR TRIBUNAL

New Zealand Immigration and Protection Tribunal

DATE FILED (OR FIRST HEARING DATE)

11/09/2023

LITIGATION TYPE

Constitutional and Human Rights / State Accountability

SUBJECT MATTER

Human rights and refugee claims

REVIEW TYPE

Merits review

SUMMARY

The appellant is a citizen of Tuvalu appealing against his deportation from New Zealand on the expiration of his interim visa on humanitarian grounds [1]–[2]; he argued that the climate change had adverse affects on the liveability of Tuvalu [23]– [32]. This was held not to entail a level of deprivation that would give rise to exceptional circumstances of a humanitarian nature [35].

CASE DOCUMENTS

Panapa v Chief Executive of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment [2024] NZIPT 506174