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Re W (an Infant)

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JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1971
Year1971
CourtHouse of Lords
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258 cases
  • Re Baby M (an Infant) (adoption: consent)
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • January 1, 1994
  • In the matter of E
    • United Kingdom
    • Family Division (Northern Ireland)
    • November 7, 2005
    ... ... In the present case there was ample reason for the trial judge, in the first place, forming the opinion that he should not take the drastic course of following it without independent inquiry and, in the second place, coming to a different conclusion as to what was for the infant’s benefit. For not only was the child two years older at an age when two years makes a material difference, but the facts, which, as appeared in the face of the Californian order, had influenced that court had substantially changed. …… This conspicuous change of circumstances demanded an ... ...
  • In the matter of W and M (Freeing for Adoption Order: BIAS: Sense of Grievance)
    • United Kingdom
    • Family Division (Northern Ireland)
    • April 7, 2006
    ... ... joint judgment of Steyn and Hoffmann LJJ in the case of Re C (a minor) (adoption: parental agreement: contact) (1993) 2 FLR 268-272 where they stated: 'The characteristics of the notional responsible parent have been expounded on many occasions; see for example Lord Wilberforce in Re D (an infant) (adoption); (parents consent) (1977) AC 602 at 625 ("endowed with a mind and temperament capable of making reasonable decisions").' ... 19 Furthermore although the reasonable parent will give great weight to the welfare of the child, there are other interests of herself and her family which she ... ...
  • Re Baby M
    • Malaysia
    • Unspecified court (Malaysia)
    • Invalid date
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2 books & journal articles
  • Police Discretion and the Rule of Law: Economic Community Rights versus Civil Rights
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 63-4, July 2000
    • July 1, 2000
    ...the competing interests which the ChiefConstable had to balance, but he was the only member of the House who did.77 In re W (An Infant) [1971] AC 682, at 700.78 ITF had argued that the Chief Constable had to show that there was no other course open to him thatwould have had less restrictive......
  • Judicial review of executive power : legality, rationality and reasonableness (part 1)
    • South Africa
    • Sabinet Southern African Public Law No. 30-1, January 2015
    • January 1, 2015
    ...paras 57, 67 and 70.96Grootboom (n 2) para 34; TAC (n 2) para 46; and Jafta (n 94) para s 31-34.97Per Lord Hailsham LC Re W (An Infant) [1971] AC 682 at 699-700. The traditional common-law98reasonableness test otherwise referred to as the Wednesbury unreasonableness was attributed toLord Gr......

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