Department of Community Services and Frampton

The case of *Department of Community Services and Frampton* concerned an application before Justice Le Poer Trench regarding a child's welfare. The dispute arose from an alleged failure by the father to comply with a previous order of the Full Court dated 11 September 2007.

The primary legal issues before the court were whether the father had indeed failed to comply with order 7 of the Full Court's previous orders, and if so, what the consequences of that non-compliance would be for other aspects of the existing orders, specifically order 3.

Justice Le Poer Trench declared that the father had failed to comply with order 7 of the Full Court's orders of 11 September 2007. Consequently, the court declared that order 3 of those same orders had lapsed as a result of the father's non-compliance.

The final orders of the court were that the father had failed to comply with order 7, and as a consequence, order 3 had lapsed and the application for the return of the child was discharged.