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Lessons from the Courts – Legalwise, Mar 2024

by Simon Laurent, Principal, Laurent Law Barristers & Solicitors, Auckland | Mar 22, 2024 | Articles and Seminars | 0 comments

Paper for the 2024 LegalWise Immigration Summit in Auckland. Simon Laurent picks out key Court decisions from the last year which raise issues of broader importance for professionals. This includes appeals, refugee and protection cases, the immigration consequences of...

Getting To Know Us – Marinda du Toit

by Simon Laurent, Principal, Laurent Law Barristers & Solicitors, Auckland | Jul 27, 2023 | Blog | 0 comments

Tell us a little bit about yourself? I was born in South Africa and my husband and I immigrated to New Zealand as adults. I am a qualified lawyer in South Africa but decided early on to specialise in corporate operations. I like to be involved in the wheel turning...

Legal Ethics and Professional Conduct in the Context of Immigration Advocacy [Mar 21, 2023]

by Simon Laurent, Principal, Laurent Law Barristers & Solicitors, Auckland | Jun 12, 2023 | Articles and Seminars | 0 comments

LegalWise Immigration Summit presentation covering issues for licensed immigration advisers from recent Disciplinary Tribunal decisions; the adviser’s responsibility for the work of licensed and unlicensed staff; and the right way to navigate a complaint. Download a...

Overstayers: Dawn Raids and Amnesties

by Simon Laurent, Principal, Laurent Law Barristers & Solicitors, Auckland | Jun 12, 2023 | Blog | 0 comments

Immigration NZ recently got into hot water over picking up someone from the Pacific using a tactic which has infamously become known as a “dawn raid”. This involves an early morning swoop on an address to arrest and detain someone who has no visa,...

Modern Love and New Zealand Visas

by Simon Laurent, Principal, Laurent Law Barristers & Solicitors, Auckland | Mar 30, 2023 | Immigration Visas | 0 comments

The romantic ideal of just one spouse or partner, to have and to hold as long as you both shall live, seems nowadays to be more the exception than the rule. For all sorts of reasons, people move on to a second or third long-term relationships – or even more. As...
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