Introduction
1The court is concerned today with an adoption application in relation to a little boy, L, who is now two and a half years of age. The applicant J is 50 years of age. The respondent is K, the gestational surrogate who carried L as a result of a surrogacy arrangement entered into between the parties.2The court is in a position to be able to give a judgment today because of the detail of the material that the court has available, in particular the two detailed statements by J dated 17 February 2020 and 7 July 2021, the Annex A report filed pursuant to r.14.11 Family Procedure Rules 2010 from Miss Clare Moatti, the detailed preparation that has been undertaken by J’s solicitor, Ms Gamble, and the comprehensive skeleton argument. This material has enabled the court to be able to have all the information that it needs to be able to reach a decision today.