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High Court of Kiribati |
IN THE HIGH COURT OF KIRIBATI
LAND JURISDICTION
HELD AT BETIO
REPUBLIC OF KIRIBATI
Land Review 10 of 2003
Between:
TINGA BABIANO
Applicant
And:
MWANGA TINGA
Respondent
For the Applicant: Ms Taoing Taoaba
No appearance by Respondent
Date of Hearing: 30 January 2004
JUDGMENT
(Ex Tempore)
The applicant's natural children complain that their father Tiinga Babiano went to the Court without their knowledge but in Court he said that they were consenting to his adopting Keetia. The Single Magistrate thereon made an order.
The applicants should have been notified of the hearing and have been given an opportunity to be heard. As they were not the Single Magistrate's order may not stand.
Appeal allowed. The case is returned to the Magistrate's Court for rehearing by another magistrate. All parties interested, including the two present applicants, to be notified and given an opportunity to be heard.
THE HON ROBIN MILLHOUSE QC
CHIEF JUSTICE
BETERO KAITANGARE
MAGISTRATE
RARATU IEITA
MAGISTRATE
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