Re A (Children) (Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeLORD JUSTICE WARD,LORD JUSTICE BROOKE,LORD JUSTICE ROBERT WALKER
Judgment Date22 September 2000
Neutral Citation[2000] EWCA Civ J0922-2,[2000] EWCA Civ J0922-1
Docket NumberCase No: B1/2000/2969
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
Date22 September 2000
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52 cases
  • R (Nicklinson) v Ministry of Justice (Attorney General and another intervening) R (AM) v DPP and Others (Same intervening) [DC]
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 13 November 2012
    ...the doctors propose.” 74 63. Mr Bowen submitted that the Rubicon referred to by Lord Goff was crossed in the case of Re A (Children) (Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation) [2001] Fam 147, and that the case shows that the court is able to fashion means of permitting doctors to act in a way ......
  • J.D. v. East Berkshire Community Health NHS Trust et al., (2005) 337 N.R. 74 (HL)
    • Canada
    • 21 April 2005
    ...and Wisbech Area Health Authority, [1986] 1 A.C. 112, refd to. [para. 47]. A. Children (Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation), Re, [2001] Fam. 147, refd to. [para. Hedley Byrne & Co. v. Heller & Partners Ltd., [1964] A.C. 465, refd to. [para. 47]. Attorney-General v. Prince and Gard......
  • The Attorney-General v Aj Leason Hc Wn
    • New Zealand
    • High Court
    • 31 August 2011
    ...with Particular Reference to Battered Defendants (NZLC R73, 2001) at [177]; In re A (Chlidren) (Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation [2001] Fam 147 (CA) at 53 Law Commission in Some Criminal Defences with Particular Reference to Battered Defendants (NZLC R73, 2001) at [177]. 54 Kapi v MOT (......
  • Gt v Kao
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 10 September 2007
    ...the applicant was part of a stable relationship 'indistinguishable from the conventional family-based unit', (See B. v. United Kingdom [2001] FLR 1) or to the use the words of Finlay C.J. in the case of S.W. An Infant, (see para. 49 above), as part of a family unit "bearing nearly all of th......
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41 books & journal articles
  • Genes, parents, and assisted reproductive technologies: arts, mistakes, sex, race, & law.
    • United States
    • Columbia Journal of Gender and Law Vol. 12 No. 1, January 2003
    • 1 January 2003
    ...(17.) Perry-Rogers v. Fasano. 754 N.E.2d 199 (N.Y. 2001). (18.) See, e.g., In re A (Children) (Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation), [2001] Fam. 147 CA, [2001] 2 W.L.R. 480 (C.A. Sept. 22, 2000), 2000 WL 1274054. This British case involves Michaelangelo and Rina Attarc, a strict Roman Cath......
  • Conforming to the rule of law: when person and human being finally mean the same thing in Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence.
    • United States
    • Issues in Law & Medicine Vol. 22 No. 2-3, September 2006
    • 22 September 2006
    ...v. Bloomington Hosp., 464 U.S. 961 (1983) and other Baby Doe cases. (860) In Re A (Children) (Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation), [2000] 4 All E.R. 961, 1010 (C.A.); and Charles I. Lugosi, Playing God: Mary Must Die So Jody may Live Longer, 17 ISSUES IN Law & MED. 123 (861) Harry R. ......
  • A Right to Assist? Assisted Dying and the Interim Policy
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 74-1, February 2010
    • 1 February 2010
    ...Crim LR 515for a discussion of the necessity and the right to life, in relation to a case involvingconjoined twins (Re A (Children) [2000] 4 All ER 961).20 Grayling, above n. 9 at 135.21 Purdy v DPP [2009] UKHL 45 at [55], per Lord Hope.22 See S. Michlowski, ‘Legalising Active Voluntary Eut......
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    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Criminal Law. Eighth edition
    • 1 September 2022
    ...Canada Inc v Canada (Attorney General), 2020 FCA 103 .................. 286 A (Children) (Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation), [2000] 4 All ER 961 (CA) .........................................................................................411 Adgey v R (1973), [1975] 2 SCR 426, 13 CCC (......
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