Angelita Tapayan
LawyerAngelita Tapayan practises immigration law at AW Law in Auckland (Barrister), and was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand in 2022.
Details
- Role
- Barrister
- Firm
- AW Law
- Admitted
- 11 March 2022
- Years since admission
- 4
- Location
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Regulator
- New Zealand Law Society
- Practice breadth
- Immigration among 5 practice areas
- Published IPT appeals
- 56
Immigration and Protection Tribunal appeal record
56 published decisions of the Immigration and Protection Tribunal (and its predecessor boards) record Angelita Tapayan as counsel for the appellant. Success rates say as much about which cases a professional takes on as about their work — compare them with the all-appellant rate for the same appeal type, and read the decisions themselves.
| Appeal type | Cases | Allowed | Dismissed | Other | Success rate | All appellants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Refugee & protection | 55 | 16 | 39 | 0 | 29%(16 of 55) | 21% |
| Deportation: non-resident | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 of 1 | 37% |
- [2026] NZIPT 803155Refugee & protection · 4 August 2026Allowed
- [2026] NZIPT 803106Refugee & protection · 30 July 2026Dismissed/declined
- [2026] NZIPT 803166Refugee & protection · 29 July 2026Dismissed/declined
- [2026] NZIPT 803168Refugee & protection · 23 July 2026Dismissed/declined
- [2026] NZIPT 803154Refugee & protection · 13 July 2026Allowed
- [2026] NZIPT 802595Refugee & protection · 26 June 2026Dismissed/declined
- [2026] NZIPT 802915Refugee & protection · 4 June 2026Allowed
- [2026] NZIPT 803091Refugee & protection · 28 May 2026Dismissed/declined
- [2026] NZIPT 802958Refugee & protection · 20 May 2026Dismissed/declined
- [2026] NZIPT 802839Refugee & protection · 12 May 2026Dismissed/declined
- [2026] NZIPT 802897Refugee & protection · 7 May 2026Dismissed/declined
- [2026] NZIPT 802936Refugee & protection · 30 April 2026Allowed
- [2026] NZIPT 803070Refugee & protection · 29 April 2026Dismissed/declined
- [2026] NZIPT 803017Refugee & protection · 24 April 2026Dismissed/declined
- [2026] NZIPT 803204Refugee & protection · 21 April 2026Dismissed/declined
Showing the 15 most recent of 56 decisions; the totals above cover all of them.
This record may be incomplete. Tribunal decisions usually name the counselby initial and surname only — “J Bloggs” rather than a full name. Where that could point to more than one person on the register, we leave the decision out rather than risk crediting it to the wrong practitioner, so a practitioner may have appeared in more decisions than are shown here. If appearances of yours are missing, tell us on the corrections page and we will verify them against the published decisions and update the profile.
Compiled from decisions published on the Ministry of Justice tribunal decisions database. A decision is attributed only when the counsel named in it matches exactly one person on the relevant register (or the firm named in the decision confirms the match); self-represented appellants and uncertain matches are excluded, so this may undercount. Percentages are shown only where at least 5appeals in that category were decided — below that the counts are given on their own, because a single case would swing the figure. “Other” includes referrals to the Minister, withdrawn appeals and jurisdiction decisions. Context for the all-appellant rates: appeal success rates in New Zealand.
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