MW v Director-General, Department of Community Services

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
JudgeGummow,Gleeson CJ.,Heydon,Crennan JJ.
Judgment Date28 March 2008
Neutral Citation[2008] HCA 12,2008-0328 HCA A
CourtHigh Court
Docket NumberS493/2007
Date28 March 2008
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16 cases
  • Re K (A Child) (Northern Ireland)
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • Invalid date
    ...he was wrong about that, he would have held that the father had inchoate rights within the Re B principle. 32 In MW v Director-General of the Department of Community Services [2008] HCA 12, (2008) 244 ALR 205, the High Court of Australia, by a majority of four to one, overturned an order m......
  • LK v Director-General, Department of Community Services
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • March 11, 2009
    ...[25], 452 [64], 459 [100]. 11 [2007] FamCA 1099 at [25]. 12 (2008) 39 Fam LR 431 at 452 [65]. 13 (2008) 82 ALJR 629 at 639–640 [45]–[50]; 244 ALR 205 at 216–218; [2008] HCA 14 reg 15. 15 (2008) 82 ALJR 629 at 639 [49]; 244 ALR 205 at 217. 16 [2007] FamCA 1099 at [23]. 17 (2008) 39 Fam LR 43......
  • Kozarov v Victoria
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • April 13, 2022
    ...378–379 [163]–[166], 410–415 [287]–[293]; MW v Director-General, Department of Community Services (2008) 82 ALJR 629 at 660–661 [184]; 244 ALR 205 at 246; Allen v Chadwick (2015) 256 CLR 148 at 165–166 [57]. 25 Kozarov v Victoria (2020) 294 IR 1 at 140 [623]. 26 Victoria v Kozarov (2020) 30......
  • Re- B (Children) (Abduction: Consent: Oral Evidence) (Article 13(b))
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • August 19, 2022
    ...Authority v. H 2008 (1) SA 49 (SCA), at [21]; the High Court of Australia, M.W. v. Director-General, Department of Community Services [2008] HCA 12, at [200]–[201]; and the Irish Court of Appeal in J.V. v Q.I [2020] IECA 302, including at [61]: “The normal procedure is that proceedings purs......
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