A and B v Essex County Council

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date17 December 2003
Neutral Citation[2003] EWCA Civ 1848
Date17 December 2003
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)

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18 cases
  • J.D. v. East Berkshire Community Health NHS Trust et al.,
    • Canada
    • 21 April 2005
    ...v. Essex County Council, [2002] E.W.H.C. 2707; [2003] 1 F.L.R. 615 (Q.B.), refd to. [para. 27]. A. et al. v. Essex County Council, [2003] E.W.C.A. Civ. 1848; [2004] 1 W.L.R. 1881, refd to. [paras. 27, 127]. Spring v. Guardian Assurance plc et al., [1995] 2 A.C. 296; 174 N.R. 164 (H.L.), ref......
  • Jain v Trent Strategic Health Authority
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 November 2007
    ...applying to the performance by public authorities of their statutory functions given by Hale LJ, as she then was, in A v Essex County Council [2004] 1 WLR 1881: “Whenever the question of common law duty of care arises in the context of the statutory functions of a public authority there are......
  • Rowley v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 June 2007
    ...question, rather than as an aspect of the third limb of the Caparo test. In A v Essex County Council [2003] EWCA Civ 1848, [2004] 1 WLR 1881 at para 33, Hale LJ considered the question whether to impose a common law duty of care would be inconsistent with the statutory framework as an aspe......
  • B and B v A County Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 November 2006
    ...defendant that their identity would be kept secret. 12 As Hale LJ (as she then was) pointed out in her seminal judgment in A v Essex CC [2004] 1WLR 1881[72], the general adoption process is not in law a matter of contract at all, and contractual analysis cannot be applied to it. What is all......
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2 books & journal articles
  • Table of Cases
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Adoption Law - A Practical Guide Content
    • 29 August 2020
    ...Abduction Centre & Others Intervening) [2013] UKSC 60, [2014] 1 AC 1, [2013] 3 WLR 761, [2014] 1 All ER 827 9 A v Essex County Council [2003] EWCA Civ 1848, [2004] 1 WLR 1881, [2004] 1 FLR 749, [2004] 1 FCR 660 223 AGN (Adoption: Foreign Adoption), Re [2000] 2 FLR 431, [2000] 2 FCR 512, [20......
  • Adoption Support Services and Agencies
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Adoption Law - A Practical Guide Content
    • 29 August 2020
    ...continuing consequences of past abuse or neglect. This would cover situations such as those which arose in A v Essex County Council [2003] EWCA Civ 1848, [2004] 1 WLR 1881; (c) it is necessary for the local authority to make special arrangements to facilitate the placement or adoption by re......