14 Dec 2018
MORGAN v CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE MINISTRY FOR CHILDREN, ORANGA TAMARIKI [2018] NZCA 592
- Citation
- [2018] NZCA 592
- Court
- Court of Appeal
Leave to appeal was declined because the courts below applied the correct legal test that the child's welfare and interests under s 6 are paramount, any presumption of parental care cannot trump those welfare considerations, the s 128 plan's return goal yielded to demonstrable harm to the child, and the proposed appeal merely repeated arguments already decided without raising a novel legal issue of sufficient importance.