Reported Case: Ralph Marnham and Mai-Ling Savage appear in Re H (Anonymous Surrogacy)[2025] EWFC 366

Ralph Marnham, instructed by Christina Pippas and Laura Burrows of Collyer Bristow, acted for the applicants and Mai-Ling Savage, instructed by Hilka Hollmann of Dawson Cornwell, acted for the Guardian in the recently reported decision of Re H (Anonymous Surrogacy)[2025] EWFC 366.

The case concerned an application for a parental order following a #surrogacy arrangement in Nigeria, which used an anonymous surrogate. Although the court ultimately granted the application, Theis J repeated the President’s warning in Re H (Anonymous Surrogacy) [2025] EWHC 220 to intended parents who choose an anonymous surrogacy process and noted that there may come a time when the approach in determining whether a surrogate cannot be found will need to be reconsidered, as set out by Knowles J in Re QR (Parental Order: Dispensing with Consent: Proportionality) [2023] EWHC 3196.

Read the judgment here.