R v Bourne
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1938 |
| Court | Court of Criminal Appeal |
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47 cases
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R. v. Morgentaler, (1988) 26 O.A.C. 1 (SCC)
...where a child capable of being born alive was caused to die except in good faith to preserve the life of the mother. In R. v. Bourne, [1939] 1 K.B. 687, the prohibition against abortion both at common law and by statute was held to be subject to the common law defence based upon the necessi......
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R. v. Morgentaler, (1988) 82 N.R. 1 (SCC)
...where a child capable of being born alive was caused to die except in good faith to preserve the life of the mother. In R. v. Bourne , [1939] 1 K.B. 687, the prohibition against abortion both at common law and by statute was held to be subject to the common law defence based upon the necess......
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M.R v T.R, Anthony Walsh, David Walsh and Sims Clinic Ltd
...ART 40 MCGEE v AG & REVENUE CMRS 1974 IR 284 OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON ACT 1861 S58 OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON ACT 1861 S59 R v BOURNE 1939 1 KB 687 ROE v WADE 1973 410 US 113 CONSTITUTION ART 40.3.2 AG v X & ORS 1992 1 IR 1 1992 ILRM 401 CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS & BIOMEDICINE ART 18 C......
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Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (Ireland) Ltd v Stephen Grogan and Others (No 5)
... ... 1965 IR 70 AG V RYANS CAR HIRE LTD 1965 IR 642 CONSTITUTION ART 40.3 OPEN DOOR COUNSELLING & DUBLIN WELL WOMAN V IRELAND 15 EHRR 244 CAHILL V SUTTON 1980 IR 269 OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON ACT 1861 S58 OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON ACT 1861 S59 R V BOURNE 1939 1 QB 687 HEALTH (FAMILY PLANNING) ACT 1979 S10 MCGEE V AG 1974 IR 284 NORRIS V AG 1984 IR 36 CONSTITUTION ART 40.3.1 MCGIMPSEY V IRELAND 1977 IR 129 DPP, PEOPLE V KENNY 1990 2 IR 110 FINUCANE V MCMAHON 1990 1 IR 165 DPP V SHAW 1982 ... ...
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21 books & journal articles
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The Supreme Court and foreign sources of law: two hundred years of practice and the juvenile death penalty decision.
...abortions "'done in good faith for the purpose only of preserving the life of the mother.'" Id. at 136-37. (640.) Id. at 137. (641.) [1939] 1 K.B. 687 (642.) Roe, 410 U.S. at 137. (643.) Id. (644.) Id. at 137-38. (645.) Id. at 148-49 & n.44. (646.) Id. at 149 (footnote omitted). (647.) ......
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Northern Ireland Dimensions to the First Decade of the United Kingdom Supreme Court
...foetal abnor mality Art 8was not breached; Lady Black joined them in holding that it was not breached in cases of rapeor incest.144 [1939] 1 KB 687.145 For further analysis of this strange scenario, see J. Rooney, ‘Standing and the Norther n IrelandHuman Rights Commission’ (2019) 82 MLR 525......
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Reducing Homelessness or Re‐ordering the Deckchairs?
...Sheldon n 3 above,337-342; S. Sheldon,‘British Abortion Law: Speaking from the Past to Govern the Future’ (2016) 79 MLR 283-316.9 [1939] 1 KB 687.10 RvCatt Crown Court of Leeds, 17 September 2012 (unreported) at https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/JCO/Documents/Judgments/sarah-l......
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Why Doctors Need Not Fear Prosecution for Gender-Related Abortions
...1(1) of the 1929 Act. Section 58 is then qualified to theextent that that there will be no criminal liability where the act is done10 [1939] 1 KB 687.11 Ibid.12 The Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929 was enacted to fill a loophole that existed inrelation to killing a child during the bir......
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