Gillick (A.P.) v West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority and the Department of Health and Social Security (England)
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Judgment Date | 17 October 1985 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1985] UKHL J1017-1 |
| Date | 17 October 1985 |
[1985] UKHL J1017-1
House of Lords
Upon Report from the Appellate Committee to whom was referred the Cause Gillick against West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority and the Department of Health and Social Security, That the Committee had heard Counsel on Monday the 24th, Tuesday the 25th, Wednesday the 26th and Thursday the 27th days of June, and Monday the 1st, Tuesday the 2nd, Wednesday the 3rd and Thursday the 4th days of July last, upon the Petition and Appeal of the Department of Health and Social Security of Alexander Fleming House, Elephant and Castle, London, SE1, praying that the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely an Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal of the 20th day of December 1984, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament and that the said Order might be reversed, varied or altered or that the Petitioners might have such other relief in the premises as to Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament might seem meet; as also upon the Case of Victoria Gillick lodged in answer to the said Appeal, and due consideration had this day of what was offered on either side in this Cause:
It is Ordered and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in the Court of Parliament of Her Majesty the Queen assembled, That the Appeal be Allowed, and the Declaration made in the said Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal of the 20th day of December 1984 against the Respondent Department of Health and Social Security complained of in the said Appeal be, and the same is hereby, Set Aside: And it is...
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