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How do I ‘choose’ an international surrogate?

With commercial surrogacy still illegal in the UK, many single people and couples, same sex and heterosexual, choose to look to the US when considering using an international surrogate, particularly ...

How do I ‘choose’ an international surrogate?

23 September 2020
With commercial surrogacy still illegal in the UK, many single people and couples, same sex and heterosexual, choose to look to the US when considering using an international surrogate, particularly ...

Top lawyers on how to protect your modern family - Robert Brodrick and Sarah Williams for Tatler

22 September 2020
Tatler asks top lawyers, Sarah Williams, Legal Director and Head of Surrogacy, Fertility, Adoption & Modern Family and Robert Brodrick, Private Client Partner and Chair of Payne ...

Family Law (Lexis Nexis): Costs rules: what you need to know - Emily Foy

22 September 2020
Costs in financial remedy proceedings have come increasingly under the spotlight in recent years, most recently highlighted in some interesting and important commentary by Mostyn J, Francis J and Cohen ...

The parentage trap: Jessica Henson & Sarah Williams for STEP Journal

08 September 2020
Article by Jessica Henson, Dispute Resolution Partner and succession planning specialist and Sarah Williams, Legal Director and Head of Surrogacy, Fertility, Adoption & Modern Family at Payne Hicks Beach, in ...

Sarah Williams writes for the International Comparative Legal Guide - Family Law 2021

04 September 2020
Sarah Williams, Legal Director and Head of Surrogacy, Fertility, Adoption & Modern Family in the leading Family department at Payne Hicks Beach, is a contributing ...

A possibly unforeseen consequence of donating sperm

02 September 2020
As the definition of family becomes wider and less containable within traditional concepts, fascinating aspects of the law emerge, often as it struggles to keep up, which illustrate the human ...

Students unhappy with estimated GCSE and A-Level grades seek legal advice about appealing - Ane Vernon for The Independent

01 September 2020
Commentary by Ane Vernon, Dispute Resolution Partner and schools and education specialist lawyer at Payne Hicks Beach, on the significant number of students unhappy with ...

International Protection for Hong Kong residents

27 August 2020
Early in the morning of Monday 10 August, two hundred police officers raided the corporate offices of Mr Jimmy Lai’s company Next Digital in Hong Kong. Mr Lai ...

Escape to the country - Venetia Taylor for EG

25 August 2020
Article by Venetia Taylor, Associate and landed estates and agriculture specialist lawyer in the Property department, in which she considers how countryside living may look ...