The Law Reports (Family Division)
[2007] Fam 1
Court of Appeal
J v C and another
[2006] EWCA Civ 551
2006 April 5;
May 15
May 15
Thorpe, Wall and Richards LJJ
Children
— Orders with respect to children
— Leave to apply for order
— Female applicant living as male
— Purported marriage to female respondent
— Couple living together as husband and wife
— Respondent conceiving children through artificial insemination by donor
— Whether applicant “party to … marriage” with respondent
— Whether applicant “parent” of children
— Whether applicant requiring leave to apply for orders with respect to children
—
Family Law Reform Act 1987 (c 42), s. 27
[1]
—
Children Act 1989 (c 41), s. 10(4)(a)
[2]
Medical practitioner
— Medical treatment
— Human fertilisation
— Woman inseminated with donor sperm prior to commencement of 1990 Act
— Child born after commencement of Act
— Whether 1990 Act applying
—
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (c 37), ss. 28, 49(3)
[3]