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Balamoody v United Kingdom Central Council; Balamoody v Manchester City Magistrates’ Court: Admn 10 Jun 1998

The applicant had been convicted of offences relating to the management of his nursing home, and had been struck off the Register of Nurses. Held: It was no defence to the criminal charges that a member of staff had failed in her duties. The defence available to offences of showing that he had taken all … Continue reading Balamoody v United Kingdom Central Council; Balamoody v Manchester City Magistrates’ Court: Admn 10 Jun 1998

Dennis v UK Central Council for Nursing Midwifery and Health Visiting: QBD 23 Mar 1993

The Council when hearing a disciplinary complaint, must consider all the evidence, and explain its understanding of any rules which it intends to apply before retiring, where there might be any doubt or question. A conviction for a traffic offence can be of such a kind and seriousness as to bring a profession into disrepute … Continue reading Dennis v UK Central Council for Nursing Midwifery and Health Visiting: QBD 23 Mar 1993

Ahmet, Regina (on the Application Of) v Secretary of State for Health: Admn 10 Jun 2005

The applicant sought cancellation of an alert issued by the respondent as to the thereat posed by his medical practice. The alert was issued without prior notification to him. Though complaints were penidng against him, no decsision had been made to supend him from practice as a registered general nurse. Held: The issue of an … Continue reading Ahmet, Regina (on the Application Of) v Secretary of State for Health: Admn 10 Jun 2005

Doogan and Another v NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board: SCS 24 Apr 2013

(Extra Division, Inner House) The reclaimers, Roman Catholic midwives working on a labour ward as co-ordinators, sought to assert a right of conscientious objection under the 1967 Act. The respondents said that only those directly involved in the termination of a pregnancy could assert such a right. Held: The midwives’ appeal succeeded. The Act set … Continue reading Doogan and Another v NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board: SCS 24 Apr 2013

Christian v Nursing and Midwifery Council: Admn 19 Feb 2010

The appellant, a former registered nurse, Miss Christina Christian appealed against an order of the Nursing and Midwifery Council Conduct and Competence Committee to strike her off as a registered nurse and to impose an interim suspension order. The effect of the latter is to suspend the nurse from practice immediately following pronouncement of the … Continue reading Christian v Nursing and Midwifery Council: Admn 19 Feb 2010

Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom v Department of Health and Social Security: CA 1981

The College sought clarification of the role to be undertaken by nurses in abortion procedures. Lord Denning MR said: ‘when a pregnancy is terminated by medical induction, who should do the actual act of termination? Should it be done by a doctor? Or can he leave it to the nurses? The Royal College of Nursing … Continue reading Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom v Department of Health and Social Security: CA 1981

Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom v Department of Health and Social Security: HL 2 Jan 1981

The court was asked whether nurses could properly involve themselves in a pregnancy termination procedure not known when the Act was passed, and in particular, whether a pregnancy was ‘terminated by a medical practitioner’, when it was carried out by nurses acting on the instructions of such a practitioner. Held: The phrase ‘treatment for the … Continue reading Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom v Department of Health and Social Security: HL 2 Jan 1981

Greater Glasgow Health Board v Doogan and Another: SC 17 Dec 2014

Roman Catholic Midwives, working as Labour Ward Co-ordinators had objected to being involved in an administrative capacity in abortions being conducted by the appellants. The Outer House had said they were not entitled to opt out, but the Inner House had declared that ‘the petitioners’ entitlement to conscientious objection to participation in treatment for termination … Continue reading Greater Glasgow Health Board v Doogan and Another: SC 17 Dec 2014

British Pregnancy Advisory Service v Secretary of State for Health: Admn 14 Feb 2011

The claimant sought a declaration that the administration of an abortifacient drug was not ‘any treatment for the termination of pregnancy’ for the purposes of section 1 of the 1967 Act, allowing the piloting and possible adoption of early medical abortions in part self-administered. Held: The request was refused. Parliament had passed the Act aware … Continue reading British Pregnancy Advisory Service v Secretary of State for Health: Admn 14 Feb 2011

Rex v Bourne: 1939

An eminent surgeon openly in a public hospital operated to terminate the pregnancy of a 14 year old girl who had become pregnant in consequence of a violent rape.
Held: The court suggested when summing up that there might be a duty in certain . .

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