Read the full judgment text of CACV 000014/1971 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 5 May 1971.
2. At 9.30 a.m. on the 5th of May counsel for the mother (Mr. Bernacchi) moved the Court for a stay of execution pending an appeal from a judgment given by Mr. Justice Briggs on 3rd May. 1971. Apart from the notice of motion, the only documents on the file were two short affidavits by the mother to the effect that the judge had dismissed some action and ordered her to deliver up her children to the father, and that the father would, in all probability, leave the jurisdiction of the Court and pro