Surrogacy

Legal academic Dr Dafni Lima responds to a new crackdown on surrogacy by Italy's far-right government. The Italian Senate recently passed a law making surrogacy a “universal crime”. ...

New legislation is to address the rights of parents who undertake a donor-assisted human reproduction (DAHR) procedure abroad. The amending bill is being brought hot on the ...

The High Court has granted a declaration of parentage in favour of a gay man who alleged that the children's mother backed out of a co-parenting agreement. ...

Legislation regulating assisted human reproduction (AHR) and surrogacy arrangements has been approved by the Oireachtas. The Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022 regulates for the first time ...

Ministers will seek to amend landmark proposed legislation to include provisions covering international surrogacy arrangements, the government has confirmed. The Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022 will ...

The Supreme Court has ruled that a child born in the UK via a surrogacy arrangement was not entitled to Irish citizenship based on his non-biological father’s ...

Children with experience of surrogacy are "in favour of legal reforms", according to a new study led by the University of Leicester. Using a combination of age-appropriate ...

Denmark's outright ban on adoption in the context of a commercial surrogacy agreement violated the rights of two children born to a surrogate mother, the European ...

Northern Ireland’s High Court has refused an application for judicial review where it was alleged that a same-sex couple suffered discrimination after being denied access to a ...

Government ministers have yet to reach a decision on whether to accept an Oireachtas committee's recommendation that international surrogacy should be included within an existing draft bill ...

A draft bill on domestic surrogacy should be amended to also establish a legislative framework for international surrogacy, an Oireachtas committee has recommended. The joint committee on ...

"We are on the cusp, I believe, of the commencement and introduction of one of the most transformational pieces of legislation in Irish history," says Annette Hickey, ...

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has been granted liberty by the Supreme Court to exercise its amicus curiae function in a significant case relating to ...

Ireland's special rapporteur on child protection has slammed government plans to leave international surrogacy unregulated, warning that it will allow couples "to bring children here in circumstances ...

A special joint Oireachtas committee is being established by ministers to make recommendations on international surrogacy. There is currently no regulation of surrogacy, either altruistic or commercial, ...