F v F (Evidence: Blood test)

Subject Matter

EVIDENCE — Blood test — Adultery — Blood grouping of husband, wife and child — Factor present in child's blood absent from blood of husband and wife — Whether sufficient to establish adultery — Paternity issue

[1968] P 506; [1968] 2 WLR 190

HUSBAND AND WIFE — Adultery — Evidence — Birth of child — Blood tests of husband, wife and child — Factor in child's blood absent from blood of husband and wife — Whether evidence of adultery — Paternity issue — Whether sufficient to satisfy court beyond reasonable doubt of illegitimacy of child

[1968] P 506; [1968] 2 WLR 190

HUSBAND AND WIFE — Desertion — Just cause — Blood test — Adultery as proof — Medical specialist's report that factor present in child's blood absent from blood of husband and wife — Opinion that husband not the father of wife's child — Whether husband just cause to believe wife guilty of adultery

[1968] P 506; [1968] 2 WLR 190