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The importance of free and unconditional consent of the surrogate in parental order cases

The importance of free and unconditional consent of the surrogate in parental order cases

by Guest Post | Feb 2, 2023 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

This is a guest post by Lottie Park-Morton, Senior Lecturer in Law at University of Gloucestershire, who is currently undertaking a PhD on surrogacy and children’s rights. Lottie tweets as @cparkmorton The recent case of Re C (Surrogacy: Consent) [2023] EWCA Civ 16...
FAMILY JUSTICE: OSTIIS APERTIS?

FAMILY JUSTICE: OSTIIS APERTIS?

by Guest Post | Jan 12, 2023 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Notorious, Transparency News

FAMILY JUSTICE: OSTIIS APERTIS?[1] Or a mantle of inviolable secrecy?[2] A challenge to those who would keep the doors closed This is a guest post by Sir James Munby, former President of the Family Division On 28 October 2021 the President published the outcome of his...
The importance of free and unconditional consent of the surrogate in parental order cases

FGM: Bad-faith actors and unintended consequences

by Guest Post | Nov 22, 2022 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

This is a guest post by Georgia Fineberg about the case of Nottingham County Council v OA & Anor [2022] EWFC 102 (17 August 2022). Georgia is a pupil barrister who has worked for nine years in the women’s voluntary sector, primarily...
Who’s the Daddy? When the right to know who your parent is, is a human right 

Who’s the Daddy? When the right to know who your parent is, is a human right 

by Guest Post | Aug 12, 2022 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

This is a guest post by Georgia Fineberg about the case of X v Y [2022] EWFC 77 (07 July 2022). Georgia is a future pupil barrister who has worked for nine years in the women’s voluntary sector, primarily supporting survivors of domestic abuse and the LGBTQI+...

Transparently clunky – Mostyn J and transparency orders before the Court of Protection

by Guest Post | Aug 10, 2022 | Analysis, Court of Protection, Explanation

This is a guest post by Alex Ruck Keene, reposted with permission from the Mental Capacity Law and Policy blog. In Re EM [2022] EWCOP 31, Mostyn J expressed a number of concerns about the transparency order made in the case before him by Keehan J, in ‘broadly...
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