February 2025

The President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane, yesterday handed down judgment in the matter of Re (Z) Unlawful Foreign Surrogacy: Adoption) [2025] EWHC 339 (Fam). The anonymised judgment sets out lessons to be learned (§25 onwards) which identified the Government’s  “significant legal and public policy concerns” in respect of a foreign surrogacy agreement.