Hitchcock v W. B. and F. E. B
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1952 |
| Year | 1952 |
| Court | Divisional Court |
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28 cases
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Re D (an Infant)
...same footing as a legal parent for the purpose of deciding whether his consent is being unreasonably withhold; that is, the principle of Hitchcock's case applies, and the test is whether his attitude, as a father, in refusing consent, is unreasonable", and the learned Judge referred to a pa......
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Re W (an Infant)
...if the adoption order is not make. An "exceptional case" as was said by this Court in the Re. K (infant) (1953 1 Q.B., 117) approving Hitchcock's case (1952 2 Q. B., 261). Just because one mother in particular circumstances acting reasonably would give consent, it does not mean that another......
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Ukm v Ag
...v Phua Kiah Mai [2012] 4 SLR 1267 (refd) Fynn, Re (1848) 2 De G & Sm 457; 64 ER 205 (refd) G, Re [2006] 1 WLR 2305 (refd) Hitchcock v WB [1952] 2 QB 561 (refd) Hope v Hope (1854) 4 De G M & G 328; 43 ER 534 (refd) J v C [1970] AC 668 (folld) Julius v Lord Bishop of Oxford (1880) 5 App Cas 2......
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Re B. (C. H. O.) (an Infant)
...difficult and to give the statute a meaning which its words do not bear. 20 The earliest of the cases to which we were referred was Hitchcock v. W.B. (1952) 2 Q.B. 561, a case in the Divisional Court. There the seriousness of an adoption order was rightly emphasized and it was pointed out t......
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Family Law
...but that these were not proved in the present case. As to s 4(4)(c) the trial judge held, citing Hitchcock v WB and FEB and others[1952] 2 QB 561, that it could not be said that E was refusing his consent in the present case “whimsically or arbitrarily or not in good faith”. The judge also ......