Infant Ruling in UK Law

Leading Cases
  • S v S; W v Official Solicitor
    • House of Lords
    • 23 Julio 1970
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    That means that the presumption of legitimacy now merely determines the onus of proof. Once evidence has been led it must be weighed without using the presumption as a make-weight in the scale for legitimacy. So even weak evidence against legitimacy must prevail if there is not other evidence to counterbalance it. The presumption will only come in at that stage in the very rare case of the evidence being so evenly balanced that the Court is unable to reach a decision on it.

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Legislation
  • Domestic Abuse Act 2021
    • UK Non-devolved
    • 1 de Enero de 2021
    ... ... to reconsider and make a new decision in accordance with its ruling; ... an offence under section 1 of the Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929 (child destruction) ... ...
  • Criminal Justice Act 2003
    • UK Non-devolved
    • 1 de Enero de 2003
    ... ... as they apply in relation to a ruling under section 40 of that Act, but subject to the following modifications ... An offence under section 1 of the Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929 (c. 34) (child destruction) ... ...
  • County Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1981
    • Northern Ireland
    • 1 de Enero de 1981
  • The Rules of the Court of Judicature (Northern Ireland) (Revision) 1980
    • Northern Ireland
    • 1 de Enero de 1980
    ... ... to reconsider it and reach a decision in accordance with the ruling of the Court or may reverse or vary the decision of the lower deciding ... deceased and to a person not under disability in preference to an infant entitled in the same class ... ...
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Books & Journal Articles
  • THE CAPACITY OF AN INFANT TO APPOINT AN AGENT
    • No. 18-5, September 1955
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... Let us assume for the sake of argument that Lord Justice Denning’s ruling is correct for all purposes. We shall see that a great many inconvenient results will follow. One such result has been ... ...
  • Pre‐Natal Injury and Transferred Malice: The Invented Other
    • No. 59-6, November 1996
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... of the child, he was charged with the murder of the infant", but was acquitted of this later charge on the trial judge\xE2\x80" ruling that there was no case to go to the jury, as the facts alleged ... ...
  • In Whose Best Interests?
    • No. 60-5, September 1997
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... with the dilemma of whether to authorise medical treatment of an infant with bilary atresia — a liver defect. The Court of Appeal y overturned the ruling of Connell J that it was in the best interests of the 18 month old child ... ...
  • Child‐Killing in English Law
    • No. 1-4, March 1938
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... report of the Select Committee on the Protection of Infant Life, 1871 (sufiva, p. 223) was followed by the introduction ... the appel- lant’s counsel strongly contested this ruling. His argument was that “between insanity and sanity there ... ...
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Law Firm Commentaries
  • Forty-four years in the wilderness: the Supreme Court finds the ‘lost years’ for child claimants
    • LexBlog United Kingdom
    Clinical negligence specialists Anthony Searle and Allegra Enefer analyse the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on lost years damages for infant claimants in the case of CCC v Sheffield Teaching Hosp...
    ... ... Searle and Allegra Enefer analyse the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on lost years damages for infant claimants in the case of CCC v Sheffield ... ...
  • IP Snapshot: May/June 2008
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    ... ... The Court of Appeal has overturned the High Court's ... ruling of December 2006 which granted the former organist of ... the band ... behalf of JK Rowling's infant son, David Murray, following ... the covert taking and subsequent ... ...
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