Re Z (A Child) (2016)

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 s.54(1) and s.54(2) were incompatible with the rights of a father and his child under ECHR art.14 taken with art.8 insofar as they prevented the father from obtaining a parental order on the sole ground of his status as a single person as opposed to being part of a couple.

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