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Table of cases
- England and Wales
- Germany
- Ampthill Peerage, 1977. AC 547.
- BGH, Case XII ZB 463/13, 2014. 10 December. Bghz 203, 350
- Re A (Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008), 2015. EWHC 2602 (Fam).
- Re W (Minors) (Surrogacy), 1991. 1. FLR 385.
- R (McConnell and YY) V Registrar General, 2020a. EWCA Civ 559.
- R (On the Application of TT) V Registrar General for England and Wales. 2019a. EWHC 1823 (Fam).
- Whittington Hospital NHS Trust V XX, 2020b. UKSC 14.
European Court of Human Rights
- Advisory Opinion Concerning the Recognition in Domestic Law of a Legal Parent-Child Relationship Between a Child Born Through a Gestational Surrogacy Arrangement Abroad and the Intended Mother [GC], Request No. P16-2018-001, French Court of Cassation, 10 April 2019b.
- Mennesson V. France, No. 65192/11, ECHR 2014 ( extracts).
- X, Y and Z v. the United Kingdom, 1997. Reports of Judgments and Decisions 1997, 22 April