Case No. FD21F00068

By ticking yes, you consent to the following: • I consent to my name, place of birth and occupation being entered on the register of births as the legal father of any child born from my partner’s treatment. This register is kept under the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953, or the Births and Deaths Registration (Northern Ireland) Order 1976, or the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965. • I also consent to information about my or my partner’s treatment being disclosed to my partner and one of the following registrars: - the Registrar General for England and Wales - the Registrar General for Scotland - the Registrar for Northern Ireland. Please note that being recorded in the register of births as the legal father of a child born from your partner’s treatment does not transfer any inheritance or other legal rights to the child.”21.On 8 December 2020 a member of the Clinic nursing team checked and signed off the PBR form. The fact the parents were not married to each other was not picked up at that point.22.Following a phone call to the Clinic by the mother about the treatment timetable, an electronic registration form was sent to both parents on 16 December 2020 using the Clinic’s patient portal system. Both parents completed the form and stated on this form they were ‘not married’. Their marital status was updated on the Clinic electronic system automatically overnight, so the Clinic records recorded them as ‘not married’. The registration form the parents completed had the following notice above the box relating to marital status ‘IMPORTANT: Your answer to the following questions are CRITICAL to determine the legal parenthood of your future child’.23.A travel questionnaire was also completed by both parents on 16 December 2020. They both ticked ‘yes’ to the question ‘we are being seen in clinic (or donating embryos) as a couple