3 Sept 2014
MULDER v HEKE & Anor [2014] NZHC 2098
- Citation
- [2014] NZHC 2098
- Court
- High Court
The summary judgment application was dismissed because the factual question whether the deceased was the natural or lawfully adopted child of the Heke parents could not be dismissed as having no substance on the material before the Court, particularly given the probative force of the birth certificate and competing whakapapa evidence; therefore the first defendant has an arguable defence and the matter requires trial.