28 Feb 2020
NORMAN v ATTORNEY-GENERAL [2020] NZHC 336
- Citation
- [2020] NZHC 336
- Court
- High Court
Although fresh DNA evidence admitted on appeal supported the claimed familial relationship, the Court declined to make final adoption orders because the welfare and interests of the children would not be promoted: the children have a primary, loving caregiver and extended family in Ethiopia; the subsidiarity principle and international obligations weigh strongly in favour of them remaining in their country of origin where suitable family care exists; the applicants' motives were substantially educational and socioeconomic rather than to create a parental family unit; given the children's ages…