The Weekly Law Reports
[1981] 2 WLR 279
[HOUSE OF LORDS]
ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING OF THE UNITED KINGDOM RESPONDENT AND DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SECURITY APPELLANT
1980 Oct. 27,
28,
29;
Nov. 7
1980 Dec. 8, 9;
1981 Feb. 5
Nov. 7
1980 Dec. 8, 9;
1981 Feb. 5
Lord Denning M.R., Brightman L.J. and Sir George Baker Lord Wilberforce, Lord Diplock, Lord Edmund-Davies, Lord Keith of Kinkel and Lord Roskill
Crime
— Abortion
— Medical practitioner
— Termination of pregnancy by medical induction
— Part of procedure carried out by nurses acting on instructions of registered medical practitioner
— Whether pregnancy “terminated by a registered medical practitioner”
—
Abortion Act 1967 (c. 87), s. 1 (1)