Re H (Deceased)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1990
Date1990
CourtChancery Division
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10 cases
  • Dunbar v Plant
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 23 July 1997
    ...Giles [1972] Ch 554; R v Chief National Insurance Commissioner Ex Parte Connor [1981] 1 QB 758; Re K (Supra); Davitt v Titcumb (Supra); Re H deceased [1991] 1FLR 441 and Re S deceased [1996] 1WLR 47The following propositions relating to the scope of the principle enunciated by Fry LJ in Cle......
  • Jones v Roberts
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • Invalid date
  • Rampal v Rampal
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 June 2001
    ...to R v Chief National Insurance Commissioner Ex Parte Connor [1981] QB 758,Re Royse (Deceased) [1985] 1 Ch 22 and Re H (Deceased) [1990] 1 FLR 441. In the case of Connor there is an authoritative passage in the judgment of Lord Lane LCJ at pages 765–6. He first rejected the submission that ......
  • J v S-T (Formerly J) (Transsexual: Ancillary Relief)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 November 1996
    ...that public policy required the courts to refuse to assist a criminal to benefit from his crime at least in serious cases." 89In re H (dec'd) [1990] 1 F.L.R. 441, 447 Peter Gibson J. also followed Gray v Barr and assessed the wrongdoer's culpability, and asked:— "Was Mr H guilty of deliber......
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1 books & journal articles
  • High Court
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 60-3, August 1996
    • 1 August 1996
    ...nature of his attack upon his wife,he was disentitledto any benefit he would otherwise have received from her death: see Re Hdeceased[1990]1 FLR 441. This meant that, on her having died intestate,her estate passed to her son, not her husband. The question raised by anapplication to the High......

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