‘In a landmark ruling the High Court has formally recognised Pakistan’s Islamic law, and allowed an 18-month-old boy to come to New Zealand.
The judgment by Justice Christopher Allan in the case of “MH” – as the child is now known – is the first by a New Zealand court to formally recognise the legal status of Pakistani guardianship.
Two days after he was born in Karachi, MH’s birth parents gave him to their close friends, Pakistan-born New Zealand citizens Iqbal Sharif and Sara Sami.
The Pakistan Family Court has issued a certificate of guardianship, formally recognising the donation.
Immigration New Zealand refused MH a visa, saying that what had occurred in Pakistan was not adoption as it was understood in New Zealand law.
But Pakistan does not recognise adoption.
In a closely argued ruling, Justice Allan considered Islamic law (Sharia) and ruled in favour of the adopted parents…’
The camel’s nose is well and truly under the tent flap–what’s to stop a NZ judge recognizing other sharia laws, now the precedent has been set?What next, public stonings, beheadings and amputations? Perhaps public hanging of homosexuals? The judge is an effing PC moron.
