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Deirdre Fottrell QC and Sharon Segal provide a legal analysis of the ground-breaking surrogacy case of X v Z (Parental Order Adult) [2022] EWFC 26.
] Anya Proops QC, representing Newman, told a virtual Court of Appeal hearing on Thursday 4 March that although accredited journalists are allowed to attend private family court hearings, there were numerous obstacles to this in practice. In this case, as in many, journalists were not aware of the issues in play until the Court of Appeal judgment overturning the child’s placement order was published, Proops said. This also means journalists are often unable to decide to which hearings they should dedicate their limited resources. Proops said this raised a “very real question” as to whet...