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Surrogacy laws which prevent single people from claiming parental rights are set to change following a ruling by the Family Division of the High Court.
The court ruled earlier this month that a single man who fathered a child via a surrogate mother had his right to raise the child discriminated against.
The man claimed the current law meant an application for a "parental order" could only be made by two people.
The government said it was now considering updating the legislation.
American mother
The child was born in August 2014 in Minnesota in the US, to an American surrogate mother using the father's sperm and a third party donor's egg.
The father then returned to the UK, bringing the child - ,known in court as Z - with him. But legally he did not have parental responsibility for the child - as under British law the surrogate mother is regarded as his mother, whatever the wishes of either party.
The current laws - the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 - allow married couples, civil partners and couples in...