The Weekly Law Reports
[1964] 3 WLR 563
[QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION.]
ROBINSON
v.
WILLIAMS.
1964 June 18.
Lord Parker C.J., Widgery and John Stephenson JJ.
Affiliation
— Jurisdiction
— Successive complaints
— First complaint dismissed
— Second complaint
— Same subject matter
— Fresh evidence
— Nature of fresh evidence
— Whether evidence of a serious kind
— Whether evidence must be evidence not reasonably obtainable at the first hearing
—
Affiliation Proceedings Act, 1957 (5 & 6 Eliz. 2, c. 55) s. 4.
Evidence
— Fresh evidence
— Affiliation
— Second complaint by mother that defendant putative father
— Nature of fresh evidence
— Whether evidence must be of serious kind
— Whether evidence not reasonably obtainable at first hearing
—
Affiliation Proceedings Act, 1957 (5 & 6 Eliz. 2, c. 55) s. 4.
Estoppel
— Per rem judicatam
— Affiliation
— Complaint by mother of illegitimate child
— Complaint dismissed
— Second complaint on same ground in respect of same birth
— Fresh evidence adduced
— Whether jurisdiction to hear second complaint
—
Affiliation Proceedings Act, 1957, s. 4.