Infant Ruling in UK Law
Leading Cases
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S v S; W v Official Solicitor
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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
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Domestic Abuse Act 2021
... ... to reconsider and make a new decision in accordance with its ruling;(c) make any order which the court that made the decision appealed against ... Act (administering poison) ;(e) an offence under section 1 of the Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929 (child destruction) ... (3) Subsection (1) ... ...
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Criminal Justice Act 2003
... ... to appeal relating to such a hearing,as they apply in relation to a ruling under section 40 of that Act, but subject to the following ... 3, Sch. 1 para. 2 ... (23) An offence under section 1 of the Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929 (c. 34) (child destruction) ... ...
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Hull and Selby Railway Act 1836
... ... , and in case of a Lady, whether married or sole, and in case of an Infant or Lunatic, then for his Guardian, Committee, or Trustee, to contract for ... making, erecting, building, embanking, constructing, repair- mak,"S Ruling, altering, or maintaining the said Railway or any of the Works by ^reli,^0 ... ...
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Civil Procedure Rules 1998
... ... out of proceedings relating to the wardship or adoption of an infant or wholly or mainly to the guardianship, custody, maintenance or ... 2000/221), rules 1(a), 40 ... (Rule 3A) Ruling on meaning ... ...
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Books & Journal Articles
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THE CAPACITY OF AN INFANT TO APPOINT AN AGENT
... ... 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 ... ...
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Pre‐Natal Injury and Transferred Malice: The Invented Other
... ... 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 ... ...
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Recent Judicial Decisions
... ... and she died some weeks after having given birth to a live infant that survived for 120 days before it died. He was convicted on ... later charged with the murder of the infant on the Judge's ruling that, in law, there was no case togo to the jury, for the ... ...
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In Whose Best Interests?
... ... 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 ... ...
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Law Firm Commentaries
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IP Snapshot: May/June 2008
... ... 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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