Parentage and Parenthood
Essay Questons (2016): ‘The concept of legal parenthood is governed entrely by the noton that the
child may only have two legal parents. This is an outdated and unhelpful assumpton.
(2013): ‘Family law needs to reconsider “legal parenthood” if the concept of “parental
responsibility” under CA 1989 is ever to be meaningful”
OR ‘Enforcing pre-concepton agreements would be a sensible way to legally organise
parenthood in the context of collaboratve reproducton. Discuss.’
(2012): ‘The parenthood provisions of the HFEA 2008 have been described by the
Christan Insttute as ‘a radical and new departure in family law’. To what extent,l if at all,l
do you agree?’
(2011): “Given the proliferaton and degradaton of parental responsibility (Reece) it is
clear that the rigid two-parent model for legal parenthood is no longer sustainable”
Discuss.
Readings Sonia Harris Short, Joanna Miles and Rob George (2015) Family Law, pp 597-
609 ✓, 623-24 ✓, 635-645✓
Julie McCandless ‘The Role of Sexual Partnership in UK Family Law and Policy: the Case
of Legal Parenthood’ in Daniela Cutas and Sarah Chan (eds) Families: Beyond the
Nuclear Ideal (Bloomsbury: Science,l Ethics and Innovaton series,l chpt 2),l available as an
ebook at: htps:::www.bloomsburycollectons.com:book:familiesbeyond-the-
nuclear-ideal/ ✓
Kirsty Horsey (2010) ‘Challenging presumptions: legal parenthood and
surrogacy arrangements’ 22 Child and Family Law Quarterly 449-74 ✓
*Emily Jackson (2006) ‘What is a Parent?’ in Alison Diduck and Katherine O’Donovan
(eds) Feminist Perspectves on Family Law (Routledge-Cavendish) pp 59-74
*Caroline Jones (2011) ‘The (im)possible parents in law’ in Craig Lind,
Heather Keating and Jo Bridgeman (eds) Taking Responsibility: Law and the
Changing Family (Aldershot: Ashgate) pp 201-220. ✓ (Didn’t cover the part on
surrogacy as cannot be previewed on Google Books!)
*Julie McCandless and Sally Sheldon (2010) ‘The Human Fertlisaton and Embryology
Act (2008) and the Tenacity of the Sexual Family Form’ 73(2) Modern Law Review 175-
207 [for a summary version if you are struggling to get to grips with the complexity of
the parenthood provisions see: Julie McCandless and Sally Sheldon (2009) ‘Parenthood
and the HFEA 2008’ in Bionews,l Issue 502 (6 April 2009). Available at:
htp:::www.bionews.org.uk:page_338063.asp ]3
*Jenni Millbank (2008) ‘The role of ‘functonal family’ in same-sex family recogniton
trends’ 20(2) Child and Family Law Quarterly 155-182
*Roxanne Mykituk (2002) ‘Beyond Concepton: Legal Determinatons of Filiaton and
the New Reproductve and Genetc Technologies’ 39(4) Osgoode Hall Law Journal 771-
815 *Sally Sheldon (2005) ‘Reproductve Technologies and the Legal Determinaton of
Fatherhood’ 13(3) Feminist Legal Studies 349-362
Cases
● Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust v A and B [2003]3 1 FLR 412 [sperm mix up
case]3
Essay Questons (2016): ‘The concept of legal parenthood is governed entrely by the noton that the
child may only have two legal parents. This is an outdated and unhelpful assumpton.
(2013): ‘Family law needs to reconsider “legal parenthood” if the concept of “parental
responsibility” under CA 1989 is ever to be meaningful”
OR ‘Enforcing pre-concepton agreements would be a sensible way to legally organise
parenthood in the context of collaboratve reproducton. Discuss.’
(2012): ‘The parenthood provisions of the HFEA 2008 have been described by the
Christan Insttute as ‘a radical and new departure in family law’. To what extent,l if at all,l
do you agree?’
(2011): “Given the proliferaton and degradaton of parental responsibility (Reece) it is
clear that the rigid two-parent model for legal parenthood is no longer sustainable”
Discuss.
Readings Sonia Harris Short, Joanna Miles and Rob George (2015) Family Law, pp 597-
609 ✓, 623-24 ✓, 635-645✓
Julie McCandless ‘The Role of Sexual Partnership in UK Family Law and Policy: the Case
of Legal Parenthood’ in Daniela Cutas and Sarah Chan (eds) Families: Beyond the
Nuclear Ideal (Bloomsbury: Science,l Ethics and Innovaton series,l chpt 2),l available as an
ebook at: htps:::www.bloomsburycollectons.com:book:familiesbeyond-the-
nuclear-ideal/ ✓
Kirsty Horsey (2010) ‘Challenging presumptions: legal parenthood and
surrogacy arrangements’ 22 Child and Family Law Quarterly 449-74 ✓
*Emily Jackson (2006) ‘What is a Parent?’ in Alison Diduck and Katherine O’Donovan
(eds) Feminist Perspectves on Family Law (Routledge-Cavendish) pp 59-74
*Caroline Jones (2011) ‘The (im)possible parents in law’ in Craig Lind,
Heather Keating and Jo Bridgeman (eds) Taking Responsibility: Law and the
Changing Family (Aldershot: Ashgate) pp 201-220. ✓ (Didn’t cover the part on
surrogacy as cannot be previewed on Google Books!)
*Julie McCandless and Sally Sheldon (2010) ‘The Human Fertlisaton and Embryology
Act (2008) and the Tenacity of the Sexual Family Form’ 73(2) Modern Law Review 175-
207 [for a summary version if you are struggling to get to grips with the complexity of
the parenthood provisions see: Julie McCandless and Sally Sheldon (2009) ‘Parenthood
and the HFEA 2008’ in Bionews,l Issue 502 (6 April 2009). Available at:
htp:::www.bionews.org.uk:page_338063.asp ]3
*Jenni Millbank (2008) ‘The role of ‘functonal family’ in same-sex family recogniton
trends’ 20(2) Child and Family Law Quarterly 155-182
*Roxanne Mykituk (2002) ‘Beyond Concepton: Legal Determinatons of Filiaton and
the New Reproductve and Genetc Technologies’ 39(4) Osgoode Hall Law Journal 771-
815 *Sally Sheldon (2005) ‘Reproductve Technologies and the Legal Determinaton of
Fatherhood’ 13(3) Feminist Legal Studies 349-362
Cases
● Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust v A and B [2003]3 1 FLR 412 [sperm mix up
case]3
