Newspapers Publishers Association of New Zealand (Inc) v Family Court - [1999] 2 NZLR 344

Administrative law — Judicial review — Suppression order by Family Court restraining publication of information about child who was ward of the Court — Relationship between paramountcy of child's welfare and media's freedom of expression — Considerations relevant to making suppression order — New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990, ss 4, 5, 6 and 14.

Family and domestic relationships — Infants and children — Ward of the Court — Whether s 13 of the Guardianship Act 1968 providing for paramountcy of child's welfare applies in Court's wardship jurisdiction — Guardianship Act 1968, ss 3, 10B, 10E, 23, 27A and 33(1).