Walters and Mossimo and Anor

The case of *Walters and Mossimo and Anor* concerned an application before Foster J regarding the parental responsibility for a child, B. The primary dispute revolved around the existing court orders concerning the child's care and guardianship, specifically an order granting sole parental responsibility to the Minister for Family and Community Services.

The central legal issue before the court was whether the existing order granting sole parental responsibility to the Minister for Family and Community Services should be discharged. This required the court to consider the circumstances surrounding the child B and whether the continuation of the Minister's sole parental responsibility remained in the child's best interests.

Foster J discharged the order made on 29 April 2011, which had granted the Minister for Family and Community Services sole parental responsibility for the child B. Consequently, the court also ordered that the Secretary, Department of Family and Community Services, be removed as a party to the proceedings.