Rance v Mid-Downs Health Authority and Another
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 05 February 1990 |
| Date | 05 February 1990 |
| Court | Queen's Bench Division |
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6 cases
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Re A (Children) (Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation)
...of its living or power of living by or through any connection with its mother." Brooke J., as he then was, in Rance v Mid-Downs H.A. [1991] 1 Q.B. 587, 621 adopted a similar definition, saying that a child is born alive:- "� if, after birth, it exists as a live child, that is to say, breat......
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R. v. Levkovic (I.), [2008] O.T.C. Uned. K11
...these amendments reflected the contemporary view that abortion is not always socially undesirable behaviour. [56] In R. v. Rance , [1991] 1 Q.B. 587, at 618-9, Brooke J. also summarized the English history of the abortion crime: I consider first the historical background. In Roe v. Wade (19......
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Attorney General for Northern Ireland and Siobhan Desmond v The Senior Coroner For Northern Ireland
..."deceased person" in the 1959 Act to include a foetus in utero then capable of being born alive. In Rance v Mid-Downs Health Authority [1991] 1 QB 587 it was held that the words "a child then capable of being born alive" in the 1945 Act meant capable of existing as a live child, breathing a......
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R v McDonald
...the alternative count to be formulated in writing and added to the indictment. Rance and anor v. Mid Downs Health Authority and anorELR [1991] 1 Q.B. 587 and dictum of Sir John Donaldson M.R. in C. v. S.ELR [1988] Q.B. 135 at 151-152 considered. ...
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3 books & journal articles
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The Law’s Response to Pregnancy and Childbirth: Consistency, Conflict or Compromise?
...without deriving any of its living orpower of living by or through any connection with its mother’: Rance vMid-Downs Health Authority[1991] 1 QB 587, 621.36 People vBolar Ill App, 440 NE 2d 639 (1982).37 s 206 Criminal Code a child becomes a human being ‘when it has completely proceeded in ......
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A Lacuna in the Criminal Law’s Protection of Antenatal Life
...at 261, per Lord Mustill.4. Offences Against the Person Act, s 58.5. Ibid.6. See the passage cited in Rance v Mid-Downs Health Authority [1991] 1 QB 587 at 620.7. For the historical and legislative development of the legislation, see IJ Keown, ‘The Scope of the Offence of Child Destruction’......
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Expanding Eugenics or Improving Health Care in China: Commentary on the Provisions of the Standing Committee of the Gansu People’s Congress Concerning the Prohibition of Reproduction by Intellectually Impaired Persons
...that the serviceshould be provided free of charge. 19 id., Article 20.20 id., Article 19.21 id., Article 1.22 Rance v. Mid-Downs H.A. [1991] 1 Q.B. 587, [1991] 1 All E.R. 801. 23 For discussion, see D. Morgan and R.G. Lee, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act1990: Abortion and Embryo Rese......