Harte and Darwin

The matter of *Harte and Darwin* concerned parenting orders made by Burr J. The dispute revolved around the terms of supervised and unsupervised time between a father and his child, M.

The court was required to determine the specific conditions and extent of the father's time with the child, particularly in relation to supervision and the duration of unsupervised contact.

Burr J made orders by consent, noting that one paragraph of the minutes was not by consent. The court ordered that the father's time with the child M would continue to be supervised for the first hour only of each period of time spent with the father. The court also ordered an increase in the father's time with the child to be from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm each Saturday, commencing 1 January 2011. Additionally, the father was permitted to spend time with the child from 12.00 noon to 4.00 pm on 25 December 2010, unsupervised.