J v C

Subject Matter

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, s 27 — Children Act 1989, s 10(4)(a)

[2006] EWCA Civ 551; [2007] Fam 1; [2006] 3 WLR 876; [2006] 2 FLR 1098, CA

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, ss 28, 49(3)

[2006] EWCA Civ 551; [2007] Fam 1; [2006] 3 WLR 876; [2006] 2 FLR 1098, CA