Robinson v Williams

Subject Matter

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, s 4

[1965] 1 QB 89; [1964] 3 WLR 563

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

[1965] 1 QB 89; [1964] 3 WLR 563

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, s 4

[1965] 1 QB 89; [1964] 3 WLR 563