Paton v British Pregnancy Advisory Service Trustees

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1978
Date1978
CourtQueen's Bench Division
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  • Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) v R
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Protection
    • 29 January 2020
    ...and her unborn child. 59 It is necessary to consider the status of the unborn child. As Sir George Baker (P) stated in Paton v British Pregnancy Advisory Service Trustees [1979] QB 276: “The foetus cannot, in English law, in my view, have a right of its own at least until it is born and ha......
  • B v Islington Health Authority
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 18 March 1992
    ... ... it, and they failed to carry out any pregnancy test before the D & C procedure. It is said that ... See Paton v. British Pregnancy Advisory Service Trustees ... ...
  • Heidi Crowter v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 23 September 2021
    ...the fact that the RCOG report is out of date. He also relies in this context on what was said by Sir George Baker P in Paton v British Pregnancy Advisory Service Trustees [1979] QB 276, at 281: “The case put to me finally by Mr. Rankin … is that while he cannot say here that there is any s......
  • Heidi Crowter v The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 25 November 2022
    ...reasons fall into two parts. 90 First, at paras. 109–110 the Court considered an observation of Sir George Baker P in Paton v British Pregnancy Advisory Service Trustees [1979] QB 276 on which the Appellants had relied to the effect that “it would be quite impossible for the courts in any ......
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