摘要:The four separate judgments by the learned Judges of Appeal in the matter of De Gree v Webb signifies to the reader the contentious terrain that inter-country adoptions has become in South African law. The first part of this contribution examines the legal conundrum within which we are trying to facilitate inter-country adoptions and the second examines the best interests of the child principle against the backdrop of the judgments in the De Gree matter.