Zeenath Zeath

This is a child protection trial under the Child and Family Services Act involving two children, K.A.J. (born 1998) and I.C. (born 2006), who were found to be in need of protection on July 7, 2011.

The Society sought Crown wardship for both children.

The respondent mother sought return of the children under Society supervision, citing her completion of an alcohol treatment program.

The respondent father sought custody of I.C. with a plan to take the child to Angola upon his deportation.

The court found that both children should be made Crown wards, with the Society's plan for long-term care and independent living for K.A.J., and adoption for I.C. The court granted limited access orders to both parents and between the siblings.

In a child protection proceeding under the Child and Family Services Act, the court considered a motion by the child's lawyer seeking judicial notice of documents regarding conditions in Angola, including UN Human Development Index data, UNICEF reports, and documents from the Immigration and Refugee Board's national documentation package.

The father, subject to a deportation order to Angola, sought to have the children placed in his care with a plan to relocate them to Angola.

The court rejected the motion for judicial notice, finding that the proposed facts were adjudicative in nature and closely approached the central dispositive issue in the case, requiring strict application of the Morgan standard for judicial notice.