NEW SOUTH WALES COURT ISSUES JUDGEMENT FOR SECRETARY, NEW SOUTH WALES DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITIES AND JUSTICE V/S M LACEY, ET AL. CASE

Australia, June 20 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on May 19:

1. By further amended summons filed on 31 January 2025, the Secretary of the New South Wales Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) seeks an order that Rose Eilis Lacey (not her real name), now 7 years of age, be adopted by the proposed adoptive parents, Nancy Farrell (not her real name) and Jack Farrell (not his real name).

2. The Secretary also seeks orders dispensing with the consent of Rose's birth parents, Mary Lacey (not her real name) and Tony Sheridan (not his real name); an order approving the name "Farrell" (not the real surname) as the surname for Rose (with "Eilis" as the middle name, not the real middle name...