NLJ this week: Uncertainty on surrogacy

Igiehon, who won the Westminster School―Neuberger Law Prize, looks into the current legislation, the issues and the proposals for ‘quite radical and extensive’ reform.

Currently, he writes, the laws surrounding surrogacy ‘make the process very uncertain and uneasy for both the intended parents, who may have to wait for months on end and jump through various legal hoops to finally be recognised as their children’s legal parents, and for the surrogate, who, should the intended parents fail to obtain a parental order within six months of the baby’s birth, could end up saddled with legal responsibility for a child they had no intention of keeping’.