U. v W. (Attorney General Intervening)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date19 February 1997
Date19 February 1997
CourtFamily Division
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9 cases
  • Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust v A and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 26 February 2003
    ...arguments because the mistake raises the issue of the status of the children. I respectfully agree with Wilson J who said in U v W (Attorney General Intervening) [1997] 2 FLR 282 at page 303 "….there is a particular need for certainty in provisions affecting status…" The legislation 7 At c......
  • Evans v Amicus Healthcare Ltd and Others (Secretary of State for Health Intervening); Hadley v Midland Fertility Services Ltd and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Family Division
    • 1 October 2003
    ...in chronological sequence, Re B (Parentage) [1996] 2 FLR 15, a decision of Bracewell J; ( Re B); U v W (Attorney General Intervening) [1997] 2 FLR 282, a decision of Wilson J ( U v W); and Re R (A Child) [2003] 2 All ER 131, a decision of the Court of Appeal (Sir Andrew Morritt V-C, Hale a......
  • Re R (A Child) (IVF: Paternity of Child)
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 12 May 2005
    ...that the woman was receiving at that time must have been "provided for her and a man together." As Wilson J observed in U v W (Attorney General Intervening) [1997] 2 FLR 282, 295B-C, the test is not whether the man consented either to be deemed in law to be the father of the prospective ch......
  • Re R (A Child) (IVF: Paternity of Child)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 July 2001
    ... ... the move to Spain will require considerable adjustment, and that to ask G to adapt to a general and social use of the name L is only to aggravate the task. Against that, it can obviously be said ... ...
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3 books & journal articles
  • The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act (2008) and the Tenacity of the Sexual Family Form1
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 73-2, March 2010
    • 1 March 2010
    ...and test these outcomes against the ir own intuitions as to whatwas right, n 45 above.61 Re B (Parentage) [199 6] 2 F LR 15, UvW[1997]2 FLR 282, Re R (Contact:HFEA) (2001) 1FLR 247,The LeedsTeaching HospitalsNHS Trust vMr A, Mrs A an d Oth ers [2003] EWCA 259 (QBD). Thesecases are examined ......
  • In the Name of the Father? Ex parte Blood: Dealing with Novelty and Anomaly
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 60-6, November 1997
    • 1 November 1997
    ...recipient;45and(iv) the burden is on the member state to show legitimate public policy41 See also UvW (Attorney General intervening) [1997] 2 FLR 282.42 Lord Woolf, n 1 above, 700.43 For the identification of these themes see Janet Dolgin, ‘The ‘‘Intent’’ of Reproduction: ReproductiveTechno......
  • Fragmenting Fatherhood: The Regulation of Reproductive Technologies
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 68-4, July 2005
    • 1 July 2005
    ...found that the correct understanding of this provision was torequire a‘joint enterprise’. This understanding has been followedin: UvW[1997]2 FLR 282, Re R (Con-tact:HFEA) (2 0 01) 1 F L R 24 7,The LeedsTeachingHospitalsNHSTrust vMrA, Mr s Aa nd O ther s [2003]EWCA 259 (QBD). See however the......

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