12 Jun 2023
WH v RH [2023] NZCA 223
- Citation
- [2023] NZCA 223
- Court
- Court of Appeal
The appealed wording of Paragraph 8 amounted to a substantive restriction on adult-to-adult contact that could only be justified as an incidental protection order under s57A; the High Court made no findings of family violence nor that Care of Children orders were insufficient, so there was no jurisdictional basis for that restriction. The Court of Appeal quashed the adult-contact restriction and replaced Paragraph 8 to prohibit only contact between the appellants and the children, leaving the consent parenting order intact.