The Weekly Law Reports
[2011] 2 WLR 1006
Family Division
In re
L (A Child) (Parental Order: Foreign Surrogacy)
[2010] EWHC 3146 (Fam)
2010 Oct 15;
Dec 8
Dec 8
Hedley J
Children— Orders with respect to children— Parental order— Couple domiciled in England entering into surrogacy arrangement in United States of America— Payments to surrogate mother exceeding reasonable expenses— Couple applying for parental order— Whether payments to be authorised— Whether child’s welfare first or paramount consideration— Weight to be given to public policy considerations— Whether parental order to be made— Whether notwithstanding paramountcy of welfare applications for authorisation of payments to continue to be scrutinised with view to policing public policy matters— Observations as to transfer of cases to specialist family proceedings court and High Court—
Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c 38), s 1
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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (c 22)
s 54(8)
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Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Parental Orders) Regulations 2010 (SI 2010/985), reg 2, Sch 1