Declaration of parentage cases

14th September 2015

Dorothea Gartland & Andrew Powell represented two of the fertility clinics in a recent case before the President of the Family Division.

Consent forms, which are signed by couples who are not married or in a civil partnership to ensure legal parentage before treatment begins, had not been properly completed by the clinics involved.

In all seven of the cases, the court granted declarations of parentage.

The full judgment can be read here

Links to coverage in the national media:
BBC News
Guardian