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Rayner my parade! The importance of specialist advice.
Jemma Brimblecombe
2 August 2023
Exploring surrogacy through children's literature: Highlighting resources during National Surrogacy Week
As a surrogacy specialist, I am often asked for tips on how to talk to children about the surrogacy journey their parent or parents embarked on to have them. It is generally accepted that it is important to make sure that children are given information early on, in an age appropriate way, about the amazing way in which they were born. I regularly point my clients in the direction of some of the most recommended children’s books on the topic. I am however ashamed to say that I hadn’t read them myself and they had been gathering dust on the shelf. With National Surrogacy Week fast approaching I set about reading these wonderful books to my daughter and recruited my colleague, Hannah Muress, to read them with her children too, to get some honest feedback from their intended audience!
28 July 2023
The Court of Appeal’s decision in Re S (Children: Parentage and Jurisdiction) [2023] EWCA Civ 897
The Court of Appeal has today released its judgment in the case of Re S (Children: Parentage and Jurisdiction) [2023] EWCA Civ 897, which was heard earlier this year.
30 November 2021
What about me? Reframing Support for Families following Parental Separation – The Family Solutions Group (FSG) Report - One year on
This month marks the one year anniversary of the publication of the FSG’s report ‘What about Me’. The FSG (of which I am fortunate to be a member), was set up in early 2020 (as a multi-disciplinary sub-group of the Private Law Working Group, chaired by Mr Justice Cobb) to produce recommendations to improve the experiences of, and opportunities for, separating families away from the Family Court. The report, supported by the President of the Family Division, was widely publicised and launched via a webinar attended by over 400 family professionals.
6 April 2021
Compensated surrogacy legalised in New York state
15 February saw the introduction of a new law in New York state which legalises compensated gestational surrogacy arrangements. The Child Parent Security Act (the “Act”) brings in to force a range of provisions which formalise and regulate Surrogacy agreements.
6 January 2021
The legal position of international surrogacy in England and Italy and the recognition of foreign parental orders
Connie Atkinson, Senior Associate at Kingsley Napley, and Veronica Dindo, Solicitor at LawLab studio legale, look at the legal position in England & Wales and Italy and the recognition of foreign orders relating to the birth of children born following a surrogacy arrangement abroad.
