Paton v British Pregnancy Advisory Service Trustees
Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
Year | 1978 |
Court | House of Lords |
Date | 1978 |
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...exercise. Appeal dismissed, no order as to costs. Solicitors: RE Pugh, Esq, for the local authority. The Treasury Solicitor. CTLPaton v BPAS [1979] 1 QB 276 Sir George Baker, P had held that an unborn child had no rights of his own; and in C v S [1987] 2 WLR 1101 Heilbron, J had expressly a......
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...injunctions for the welfare of a child under section 68B of the Act. The court cited Paton v The British Pregnancy Advisory Service [1979] 1 QB 276 where it was held that there is no common law right to force the mother of one's child to carry it to term. The court also cited In The Marriag......
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Health Alert - 21 May 2012
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...68 Man. R. (2d) 181 (Q.B.) ............................................ 99 Paton v. British Pregnancy Advisory Service Trustees (1978), [1979] Q.B. 276, [1978] 3 W.L.R. 687, [1978] 2 All E.R. 987 ...................... 185 Paxton v. Spira (1965), 54 D.L.R. (2d) 627, 53 W.W.R. 344, [1965] B.......
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