Re H (A Minor) (Blood tests: Parental rights)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date05 March 1996
Date05 March 1996
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
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12 cases
  • RE O and J (Paternity: Blood Tests)
    • United Kingdom
    • Family Division
    • Invalid date
  • Re H and A (Children) (Paternity: Blood Tests)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 March 2002
    ...may later be demonstrated to be wrong?" 29 Those principles have been consistently applied in subsequent cases, including Re H (A Minor)(Blood Tests: Parental Rights) [1996] WLR 506 and Re T (A Child)(DNA Tests: Paternity) [2001] 3 FCR 577. The judge sought to distinguish those two authorit......
  • Re O; Re J (Children) (Blood Tests: Constraint)
    • United Kingdom
    • Family Division
    • 24 January 2000
    ...Wisbech Area Health Authority [1986] AC 112, [1985] 3 All ER 402, [1985] 3 WLR 830, HL. H (a minor) (blood tests: parental rights), Re[1996] 3 FCR 201, [1997] Fam 89, [1996] 4 All ER 28, [1996] 3 WLR 506, [1996] 2 FLR 65, J (a minor) (wardship: medical treatment), Re [1991] FCR 370, [1991] ......
  • Z (Children)
    • United Kingdom
    • Family Division
    • 18 June 2014
    ...be resolved on the best evidence, and, as in adoption, the child should be told the truth as soon as possible." In In re H (A Minor) (Blood Tests: Parental Rights) [1997] Fam 89, 106, Ward LJ said, apropos paternity: "every child has a right to know the truth unless his welfare clearly just......
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1 books & journal articles
  • Family Law and Genetics
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 61-5, September 1998
    • 1 September 1998
    ...1973, s 52(1).18 ss 28(2), (3), 29(1).19 s 23 and Family Law Reform Act 1969, s 20.20 Re A (a minor) [1994] 2 FLR 463; Re H (a minor) [1996] 4 All ER 28.21 n 17 above.22 s 4.September 1998] Family Law and GeneticsThe Modern Law Review Limited 1998 with a man on a woman who at no stage had a......

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