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05 September 2024

Developments in Modern Family Law – Sarah Williams expert analysis chapter for International Comparative Legal Guide Family Law 2025

Sarah Williams, Partner in the Family Department and specialist childrensurrogacy, fertility, adoption and modern family lawyer, is a contributing author of the recently published for International Comparative Legal Guide Family Law 2025. In her expert analysis chapter, Sarah comprehensively covers the current legislation for surrogacy and imminent reform; transgender rights; donor identification; posthumous conception and cases of interest. Sarah reviews the landmark cases of X, Re [2020] EWFC 39, X v Z (Parental Order Adult) [2022] EWFC 26; Re Z (A child) (No 2) [2016] EWHC 1191 (Fam); Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority [1986] AC 112; Bell v Tavistock & Others [2020] EWHC 3274 (Admin); the Cass Review; Bell v Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and other [2021] EWCA Civ 1363; O v P & Anor [2024] EWHC 1077 (Fam); AB v CD and others [2021] EWHC 741; Re X (Catastrophic Injury: Collection and Storage of Sperm) [202] EWCOP 48 and Y v A Healthcare Trust [2018] EWCOP 18.

First published in ICLG – Family Law 2025 Eighth Edition 2 September 2024 and reproduced with kind permission.

Sarah is a specialist lawyer focusing on international children and complex modern family law. Sarah is part of the firm’s top ranked Family department that focuses on providing specialist advice on all areas of family law, including issues arising from divorce and separationcohabitationcivil partnerships and same sex marriagefinancial consequences of a relationship breakdowninheritance claims and pre and post-nuptial agreements. The team works for a variety of high net worth and ultra-high net worth clients on both contentious and non-contentious matters, including those with a complex international angle and is adept at handling all cases with the utmost discretion whilst delivering the best outcome for their clients. Clients highly value the team’s exceptional level of service, astute financial acumen and unparalleled levels of support and is recognised across the industry as one of the best family teams in the UK, having won ‘Family Law Team of the Year’ at the Chambers High Net Worth Awards 2024.

For further information, please contact Sarah Williams, Partner in the Family Department or, alternatively, telephone on 020 7465 4300

You can access Sarah’s chapter in full here: https://iclg.com/practice-areas/family-laws-and-regulations/02-developments-in-modern-family-law and https://online.flippingbook.com/view/943041469/8

To read the full report, click here. 

To learn more about Modern Family Law visit our dedicated webpage and download a free copy of our Essential Guide to Modern Family here.

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