Sarah Sackman pledges to enhance legal aid in retained ministerial role
Following the flurry of high-profile cabinet appointments made by Andy Burnham, Sarah Sackman’s re-appointment as minister received more muted attention. The MP for Finchley and Golders Green remains in post as a minister of state the Ministry of Justice and has pledged to enhance legal aid and access to justice. Commenting on her re-appointment in […]
Paying a surrogate: reconciling public policy with a child’s welfare
During Surrogacy Awareness Week (1st-7th August), Stowe Family Law partner Gemma Davison explores the recent High Court judgment in A&B vs C&D, which examined the conflict between public policy and parental orders in international surrogacy cases where commercial surrogacy arrangements have been used. Commercial surrogacy in the UK is illegal on the basis it […]