M v W (Secretary of State for Health intervening)

Subject Matter

CHILDREN — Parentage — Declaration of status — IVF treatment with donor sperm provided to mother and same-sex partner as couple — Child born to mother — Fertility clinic’s internal consent form signed before change in law permitting mother’s female partner to become parent — Whether such consent form valid consent — Whether declaration of parentage to be made in respect of mother’s female partner — Family Law Act 1986 (c 55), s 55A (as inserted by Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c 19), s 83(2) and amended by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c 22), s 17, Sch 11, para 97) — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (c 22), ss 43, 44

[2019] EWHC 648 (Fam); [2019] Fam 414; [2019] 3 WLR 1; [2019] WLR(D) 205, Fam D