Ghazal and Werther

In the matter of *Ghazal and Werther*, heard before Berman J, the dispute concerned applications made by the applicant father regarding his child, B. The respondent mother, Ms Werther, sought to remove the child from Australia.

The primary legal issues before the court were whether the applications filed by the father should be dismissed and whether the child B should be removed from the Australian Federal Police Watchlist to permit the mother to take the child overseas.

Berman J dismissed all applications filed by the applicant father. The court ordered that the child B be forthwith removed from the Australian Federal Police Watchlist and that Ms Werther be permitted to remove the child from the Commonwealth of Australia. The question of costs was reserved.