‘In the first of two articles providing an introduction to surrogacy law, Bianca Jackson, a pupil barrister at Coram Chambers, considers the key statutes and regulations underpinning this growing area of family law practice.’
Family Law Week, 24th January 2014
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
“Ruth Cabeza, barrister, of Field Court Chambers considers two important judgments recently made by Mrs Justice Theis concerning payments under international commercial surrogacy agreements.”
Family Law Week, 22nd August 2013
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
“Parental leave is to be shared more equally in the future. From 2015 the UK will have a new system of flexible parental leave in place”
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Cloisters, November 2012
Source: www.cloisters.com
“Alex Verdan QC of 4 Paper Buildings considers those judgments of the last few months which are of most importance in the area of private law children proceedings.”
Family Law Week, 5th September 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.com
“A mother who had a baby through a surrogate has launched landmark legal action for the right to paid maternity leave.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th March 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Alex Verdan QC reviews the most significant of the latest judgments in private law Children applications.”
Family Law Week, 7th February 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
“An English couple who paid Indian women to have their babies can keep them and bring them up as their own ruled one of Britain’s top judges, Sir Nicholas Wall ruled today (6 December).”
Daily Telegraph, 6th December 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A serving High Court judge has told the BBC that he is approving commercial surrogacy agreements made by British couples abroad.”
BBC News, 19th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Childless couples will be able to pay surrogate mothers large sums of money to have babies for them, following a landmark High Court ruling.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th December 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Childless couples who acquire a baby using a surrogate mother abroad risk not being recognised as its parents in Britain if they flout British law by paying fees, fertility lawyers have warned.”
The Guardian, 5th April 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Gay male couples will be able to use a fast-track route to become the legal parents of surrogate children from next week. On 6 April, changes to the law will permit two men to be named as parents on a child’s birth certificate for the first time in British history.”
The Guardian, 28th March 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A High Court judge called yesterday for a review of Britain’s surrogacy laws after making a ruling that rescued baby twins from a legal limbo, which had left them ‘marooned, stateless and parentless’ in Ukraine.”
The Times, 12th December 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Twenty babies born to British surrogate mothers have been taken abroad unlawfully by the foreign couples who commissioned them because of an oversight by British courts, it emerged yesterday.”
The Guardian, 5th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A high court judge has issued a stern warning to surrogacy agencies to carry out more stringent background checks after it emerged that a surrogate mother had deliberately duped two couples into believing she had miscarried their babies.”
The Guardian, 31st October 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Appeal judges have ordered a surrogate mother who refused to give up her baby boy to return the child to his father.”
BBC News, 26th July 2007
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