D v Hall - [1984] 1 NZLR 727

Infants and children — Adoption — "Records" — Confidentiality — Disclosure of solicitor's adoption file — Duty of solicitor — Identity of adopting parents had not been disclosed to natural mother at time of child's adoption — Later, natural mother requested the solicitor who had acted for her to hand her the file relating to the adoption — Solicitor refused — The name of the adopting parents was amongst the papers in the solicitor's file — Whether the papers on the solicitor's file were "adoption records" — Whether natural mother was entitled to possession of the solicitor's adoption file — Adoption Act 1955, ss 7(6) and 23(1).