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Given their difficult fertility history, the couple decided to continue with both pregnancies. Miraculously, both pregnancies ...

They are among an increasing number of British couples who chose to pursue surrogacy, when one woman carries a child for another. But UK law has many restrictive elements, which in addition to ...

Ali joined Surrogacy UK – the leading non-profit organisation ... this involved giving many consents for treatment, operations, procedures, access for family members including their parents ...

In the UK, surrogacy laws go back to the 1980s – and are long overdue an update. This is why the Law Commission – which keeps the law under review and recommends reform where it’s needed ...

Deirdre Fottrell KC and Andrew Powell, Barristers at 4BP, take a look at the law on surrogacy in the UK and the room for reform, as well as several recent international developments In March 2023, the ...

A proposed major reform of the UK’s surrogacy laws could see intended parents declared as the legal parents of a surrogate child at its birth. In March, a joint report by the Law Commission of ...

My team and I have worked with surrogacy cases for more than a decade in both the UK and abroad. From surrogates asking for more money to separating parents during the process, trust me when I say ...

There aren’t any comprehensive figures on the number of cases (partly because some surrogacy arrangements are made informally) but it’s clear it’s something more and more couples and individuals are ...