Pauline Troy explores the question ‘Surrogacy Law: What Is Wrong With It?’ on Family Law Week. The full article is available on their site here.
The article looks at judgments in recent surrogacy law cases including:
- Re Z (Foreign Surrogacy) [2024] EWFC 304
- Re Z (Unlawful Foreign Surrogacy: Adoption) [2025] EWHC 339 Fam
- Mr and Mrs K v Mr and Mrs Z [2025] EWHC 927 (Fam)
Pauline has considerable experience of the law arising from alternative family structures, especially in the lesbian and gay community, including families created by surrogacy or donor insemination arrangements. Pauline has represented intended parents in proceedings for a Parental Order under S54 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008, including cases where children have been born to a surrogate overseas in the USA. She has also advised and represented parties on either side of disputes when co-parenting arrangements have broken down in the context of lesbian and gay parenting. These cases raise fundamental issues of the legal recognition of parenthood, parental responsibility, blended families, stepparent adoptions and psychological parenting. Read more about Pauline’s practice here.
