A midwife ordered by a court to pay $6.6 million to a boy who developed cerebral palsy as a result of a botched home birth has been arrested at Sydney airport trying to leave the country on a one-way ticket.
Authorities detained Akal Kaur Khalsa on Tuesday morning as she attempted to board a flight to Wellington, New Zealand, using a business class ticket and an Italian passport in the name of Margaret Maree Saviane.
Last year the NSW Supreme Court upheld a civil claim against Ms Khalsa brought by the mother of Will Patterson, a six-year-old Sydney boy who has quadriplegic cerebral palsy as a result of his home birth in November 2006.
A warrant was issued in June for Ms Khalsa's arrest after she failed to attend a hearing regarding the freezing of her assets.
Ms Khalsa was taken from the airport and bought before Justice Peter Garling, who remanded her in the custody of the Department of Corrective Services for failing to comply with a series of court orders.
Justice Garling said the two passports in Ms Khalsa's possession showed she had been to Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand and India in the past six months.
04/02/14 Louise Hall/The Land
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Authorities detained Akal Kaur Khalsa on Tuesday morning as she attempted to board a flight to Wellington, New Zealand, using a business class ticket and an Italian passport in the name of Margaret Maree Saviane.
Last year the NSW Supreme Court upheld a civil claim against Ms Khalsa brought by the mother of Will Patterson, a six-year-old Sydney boy who has quadriplegic cerebral palsy as a result of his home birth in November 2006.
A warrant was issued in June for Ms Khalsa's arrest after she failed to attend a hearing regarding the freezing of her assets.
Ms Khalsa was taken from the airport and bought before Justice Peter Garling, who remanded her in the custody of the Department of Corrective Services for failing to comply with a series of court orders.
Justice Garling said the two passports in Ms Khalsa's possession showed she had been to Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand and India in the past six months.
04/02/14 Louise Hall/The Land
