9 Feb 2007
C V D AND ANOR HC ROT CIV 2007-463-0057
- Citation
- openlaw-06fb8a8e_4594_4e4b_8d60_2ee46bb67f7e.pdf
- Court
- High Court
Leave to appeal was refused because the challenged Family Court findings and procedures were within judicial discretion and consistent with the child's welfare and best interests; the High Court rules require a litigation guardian unless the Court authorises a minor to proceed in own name, and the Family Court judge was entitled to terminate appointment of the child's lawyer when no useful purpose would be served and to find the child was influenced by her father such that her expressed wishes were of little weight; consequently there was no seriously arguable error warranting leave and the s…