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Parental responsibility and assisted conception via IVF or a donor
Nearly 60,000 people benefit from invitro fertilisation (IVF) and donor insemination at HFEA licensed fertility clinics in the UK, and it is not uncommon for an unlicensed clinic or ‘at home’ informal arrangement to be used for sperm donation. While ...
Read more05.05.2022
Surrogacy for single parents and your legal rights
Recently The Times reported on the story of David Watkins, one of the first men to become a single father by choice in the UK after the surrogacy laws were reformed in 2019. The change ended a restriction over providing ...
Read more09.03.2021
Legal aid remuneration is unfair and deters lawyers from building a career, Westminster inquiry hears
Parliamentarians in the Westminster Commission into the Sustainability of Legal Aid heard evidence from family law practitioners on 19 November, including from Lorraine Green an associate solicitor at Miles and Partners who specialises in cases involving children, care proceedings, adoption ...
Read more24.11.2020
Should child protection duties be relaxed for local authorities during Covid-19?
The Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020, also known as Statutory 445, will see various responsibilities relaxed in relation to children in care. This new legislation will remain in force until 25th September 2020, with a possibility of an ...
Read more23.09.2020
Can families receive justice with remote hearings in the Family Court?
The Remote Access Family Court has enabled large parts of the family justice system to continue to operate during the Covid-19 pandemic. Each day, justice is dispensed over the internet by judges sitting at computer screens often in their own ...
Read more22.06.2020
Surrogacy in the UK: understanding the options
The number of children being born through a surrogacy arrangement has soared in recent years, with celebrity couples such as Elton John and David Furnish, and Kim Kardashian and Kanye West hitting the headlines. Surrogacy arrangements, whether they are made ...
Read more08.11.2018
Miles & Partners support London Children’s Lawyers care proceedings event
Ritu Sood, an associate solicitor who specialises in the law relating to children and care proceedings helped to organise a training event for London Children’s Lawyers which was held at 7 Dials Club, Covent Garden Community Centre in London last night. The ...
Read more18.05.2017
Giving children a voice in family courts
We always imagine that once a case has gone to court that, like it or not, there will ultimately be a decision which must be upheld. In fact, that’s not always true, proven by this long-running case in which there ...
Read more28.10.2015
Who are the parents of a child born out of a surrogacy arrangement?
Surrogacy is once more in the news – this time highlighting the fact that large numbers of parents who have babies through surrogacy are not applying for the necessary legal orders to ensure they acquire the appropriate legal rights to ...
Read more19.05.2015