Re A

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1992
Year1992
CourtFamily Division
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4 cases
  • R (Smeaton (on Behalf of The Society for The Protection of Unborn Children)) v Secretary of State for Health
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 18 April 2002
    ...(conjoined twins: surgical separation), Re[2000] 3 FCR 577, [2001] Fam 147, [2000] 4 All ER 961, [2001] 2 WLR 480, CA. A, Re [1992] 3 Med LR 303. A-G (ex rel The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children Ireland Ltd) v Open Door Counselling Ltd and Dublin Wellwoman Centre Ltd [1988] IR ......
  • Re M (Declaration of Death of Child)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 14 February 2020
    ...to sustain a beating heart even though the brain stem, and therefore in medical terms the patient, is dead; “the ventilated corpse”.” 40 In Re A [1992] 3 Med LR 303 Mr Justice Johnson, sitting in the High Court Family Division, made a declaration that a 19 month old child was “dead for all......
  • Re C (Adult Patient) (Access: Jurisdiction)
    • United Kingdom
    • Family Division
    • Invalid date
    ...jurisdiction to make the declaration sought. Statutory provisions referred to: RSC Ord 15 r 16. Cases referred to in judgment. A Re [1992] 3 Med LR 303. Airedale NHS Trust v Bland[1993] 1 FCR 485; [1993] 3 WLR 316; [1993] 1 All ER 821. F (Mental Patient: Sterilization), Re [1990] 2 AC 1; su......
  • A Health and Social Care Trust and RL and The Parents of RL
    • United Kingdom
    • Family Division (Northern Ireland)
    • 3 May 2022
    ...correct approach to be taken by the High Court to such an application appears to have its genesis in a decision of Johnson J in Re A [1992] 3 Med LR 303 when he made such a declaration in respect of a child, holding that it was therefore not possible to exercise inherent jurisdiction that i......
1 books & journal articles
  • Case Note: PP v Health Service Executive
    • Ireland
    • Trinity College Law Review No. XVIII-2015, January 2015
    • 1 January 2015
    ...in futures cases, the rights and dignity of the mother will be made secondary to the right to life of the unborn. 27 Re A (A Minor) [1992] 3 Med LR 303. 28 Asim Sheikh and Denis Cusack, “Maternal Brain Death, Pregnancy and the Foetus: The Medico-Legal Implications” (2001) 2 MLJI 75. 29 Rach......

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