‘Punished for doing nothing wrong’: Queensland judge’s ‘dismaying’ decisions highlight crisis in family law courts

Gregory Egan’s decision to give a father custody of children while the mother was in hospital was just one of half a dozen that would be overturned

A Queensland judge granted a father custody of his three children while their mother was giving birth and unrepresented in court, despite the father having repeatedly ignored previous court orders.

The father was allowed to remove the children from their primary school immediately and re-enrol them in a school closer to his home, more than an hour’s drive away from the mother, under the order made by Queensland federal circuit court judge Gregory Egan during what was supposed to be a routine hearing.

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