The Weekly Law Reports
[1997] 2 WLR 806
[COURT OF APPEAL]
REGINA
v.
HUMAN FERTILISATION AND EMBRYOLOGY AUTHORITY, Ex parte
BLOOD
1997 Jan. 13,
14,
15;
Feb. 6
Feb. 6
Lord Woolf M.R., Waite and Henry L.JJ.
Medical Practitioner
— Medical treatment
— Human fertilisation
— Insemination of wife with sperm taken from unconscious husband before death
— Whether lawful without husband's written consent
— Whether husband and wife “together receiving treatment services”
— Whether refusal to permit export of sperm infringement of freedom to obtain medical services elsewhere in European Community
—
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (c. 37), ss. 4, 24, Sch. 3, paras. 1, 3, 5
—
E.C. Treaty (O.J. 1992 No. C. 224, p. 6), arts. 59, 60
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