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Another IVF paternity case

A man whose wife was accidentally given sperm from a different man during in vitro fertilisation treatment could not have parental status when his wife gave birth. The judgement was based on the man having not consented to the placing of the embryo in his wife (in error), nor had the couple undergone treatment together (as defined in the Human Fertilisation & Embryo Act 1990).

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