The Weekly Law Reports
[2025] 4 WLR 27
Family Division
YW and another v A and another
[2024] EWHC 3548 (Fam)
2024 Oct 29
Gwynneth Knowles J
Children— Orders with respect to children— Parental order— Couple domiciled in England entering into surrogacy arrangement abroad and applying for parental order— Father serving term of imprisonment— Whether recently concluded term of imprisonment precluding fulfilment of statutory requirement that child’s home be with applicants— Whether preventing making of parental order on welfare grounds— Weight to be given to public policy considerations—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 8
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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (c 22), s 54(4)(a)
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