The decision
| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Decision maker | Immigration Advisers Complaints and Disciplinary Tribunal |
| Citation | [2019] NZIACDT 23 |
| Parties | INZ (Calder) v Horan |
| Decided | 23 April 2019 |
| Licensed immigration adviser | John Wiremu Horan, licence 201002072, refused |
The Tribunal's published summary
“Sanctions decision / unprofessional & disrespectful communications with INZ / adviser made personal attacks against individual officers / adviser withheld information from client / adviser copied unconnected people in confidential client correspondence / Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007, s50, s51 / government agencies should not be unduly sensitive to criticism / communications crossed disciplinary threshold but not at upper end of unprofessional communications or malicious / withholding information isolated incident & did not cause decline of application / adviser refused to get clients’ consent to copy other people in correspondence / potential violations aggravated by contempt of code & disciplinary regime / adviser censured & ordered to pay $2,500 penalty.”
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