| Source: | All England Reporter |
| Publisher Citation: | [1999] All ER (D) 801 |
| Court: | Court of Appeal, Civil Division |
| Judge: | Lord Woolf MR, Mummery and Sedley LJJ |
| Representation | Richard Gordon QC, Tim Ward and Jennifer Richards (instructed by Mackintosh Duncan) for the applicant. |
| James Goudie QC and Siobhan Ward (instructed by Bevans Ashford, Bristol) for the respondent. | |
| Nigel Pleming QC and Steven Kovats (instructed by the Solicitor to the Department of Health) for the Secretary of State. | |
| Philip Havers QC and Kristina Stern (instructed by R C Bernhard, Director of Legal Services) for the Royal College of Nursing. | |
| Judgment Dates: | 16 July 1999 |
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Judicial review - Nursing services - Health authority closing hospital and moving permanent patients to new facility - Patients assured of permanent home at new facility - Whether authority could resile from promise - Whether authority obliged to provide nursing services for permanent patients - Whether care could be provided by local authority as social service - - .
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