A court will today consider the fate of a four-month-old baby boy who needs life-saving heart surgery.
The child's parents are refusing blood donations from vaccinated people - wishing instead to use their own donors.
Health New Zealand will go to the High Court at Auckland today, seeking guardianship over the baby to allow the surgery to proceed.
Barrister Simon Judd told Mike Hosking while it's a rare situation, the law does cover situations like these.
He says the judge can appoint the court the guardian just for the purpose of the surgery, leaving the parents as guardians in every other respect.
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