surrogacy and fertility
MODERN FAMILIES: Case-law update
Resolution’s Modern Families Conference included a handy round up of relevant recent cases from Dorothea Gartland KC and Andrew Powell, 4PB. We summarise them here by topic.
MODERN FAMILIES: Embryos on separation
As fertility science and practice evolve, the law necessarily becomes more complicated, but there are some clear areas where reform could help
Guidance Note: Fertility cases
Issues regarding fertility law have increased significantly in the last few years and members are...
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Guidance Note: Surrogacy
Surrogacy is an area of family law that is on the rise and many practitioners all over the countr...
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YRES 2023: Working with modern families: “wide ranging and fascinating”
The law on posthumous conception must be modernised
Unrealistic and incapable of anticipating changes in circumstances, the law on posthumous concept...
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Surrogacy: a practical and personal approach
In this complex and emotional field of law, your relationship with the clients can be crucial
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Building families through surrogacy: a new law
The Law Commission’s report contains a series of recommendations that aim to regulate and safeguard surrogacy. But it may be some time before they are acted upon.
PR granted to a non-birth mother in a disputed lesbian parenting case
A review of the High Court Family Division case of FC v MC [2021] EWHC 154 (Fam) (29 January 2021...
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Surrogacy law and the development of the ‘creative family court’
The case of Re X (A child) (Parental order: Surrogacy arrangement) [2020] is yet another example of the Family Court stretching the current outdated surrogacy laws in the UK.
Is UK law changing the way it views commercial surrogacy arrangements?
A review of the recent Supreme Court decision in Whittington Hospital NHS Trust v XX [2020] UKSC ...
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When fathers are mothers
Natalie Gamble and Kelly Blaxall examine the recent ruling of the President of the Family Divisio...
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Response to the Law Commission: Building families through surrogacy – A new law
Resolution's response to the Law Commissions consultation - Building families through surrogacy: ...
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Perspectives on The Law Commission and Surrogacy Law Reform
Last Friday, 19 July 2019, I attended The Law Commission’s surrogacy consultation event at Exeter...
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Surrogacy
UK law supports surrogacy if it fits a model deemed acceptable: purportedly altruistic, consentin...
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