Surrogacy loophole that let 20 babies be taken abroad - The Guardian 5th December 2007

Twenty babies born to British surrogate mothers have been taken abroad unlawfully by the foreign couples who commissioned them because of an oversight by British courts, it emerged yesterday. In around 20 cases, magistrates' courts have made parental orders making the commissioning couple the legal parents of the baby, when they had no power to do so. The courts apparently were unaware that the parents lived abroad, or they overlooked a provision of surrogacy law which says that a parental order can be made only if the commissioning parents have their permanent home in the UK, Channel Islands or Isle of Man.

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