1. Medical Technology and New Frontiers of Family Law

(1970) 125 CLR 383.

Id. at 395.

Havard J.D.J. , The Influence of the Law on Clinical Decisions Affecting Life and Death, Medicine, Science & Law 23: 157, 164–65 (1983).

See, e.g., Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 16(3).

Law Commission (Eng and Wales), Reform of the Grounds of Divorce: The Field of Choice (Law Com No. 6), 1966, Cmnd. 3123.

See, e.g., Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (UK) § 1; Family Law Act 1975 (Aust) §48(1).

See Law Commission (Eng and Wales) Illegitimacy (Law Com 118) 1982. Cf. British Nationality Act 1981 (UK) §50(9). Relevant Australian legislation includes Children (Equality of Status) Act 1976 (NSW); Status of Children Act 1978 (QLD); Family Relationship Act 1975 (SA); Status of Children Act 1974 (Tas); and Status of Children Act 1974 (Vic). See also Status of Children Act 1978 (NT).

See, e.g., De Facto Relationships Act 1984 (NSW). Cf. New South Wales Law Reform Commission, De Facto Relationships, 1983 LRC 36.

Corbett v. Corbett [1971] P 83. For further discussion, see also Dewar J. , Transsexualism and Marriage, Kingston Law Review 15 (1): 58 (1985); and Pannick D. , Homosexuals, Transsexuals and the Sex Discrimination Act, Public Law 279 (1983).

Corbett, supra note 9, at 106.

Fraser K. O'Reilly M. Rintoul J. , Hermaphroditus versus, with Report of a Case, Medical Journal of Australia 1: 1003 (1966).

Id. at 1006.

In Re C & D (1979) FLC 90–636 (CCH) (1979) 53 ALJ 659.

Cf. Matrimonial Causes Act 1959 (Aust) §18 (1) (d) (now repealed).

Finlay H. , Sexual Identity and the Law of Nullity, Australian Law journal 54: 115 (1980).

Bailey R. , Family Law—Decree of Nullity of Marriage or True Hermaphrodite Who Has Undergone Sex Change Surgery, Australian Law Journal 53: 659, 660 (1979).

Wilson R. , Life and Law: The Impact of Human Rights on Experimenting with Life, Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences 17: 61. 79 (1985).

[1983] QB 1053.

[1983] 3 WLR 361,370.

Holloway v. Arthur Andersen & Co, 566 F.2d 659 (1977).

Wilson , supra note 17, at 80. See also Samuels A. , Once a Man Always a Man; Once a Woman Always a Woman—Sex Change and the Law, Medicine, Science & Law 24: 163 (1984). Cf. Van Oosterwijck v. Belgium, EHRR 3: 557 (1981), a case in the European Court of Human Rights concerning a transsexual's right to marry.

Described in UKWP, infra note 23; and Warnock Report, infra note 24.

United Kingdom Council for Science and Society, Report of a Working Party on Human Procreation: Ethical Aspects of the New Techniques (Oxford University Press, 1984, 13; hereafter “UKWP”).

London H.M.S.O. , Cmnd. 9314, 1984 (hereafter “Warnock Report”), at 18.

UKWP at 14.

Id. at 15.

Id.

Warnock Report, at 23–24.

Id. at 25.

Id. at 37–38. See also Wadlington W. , Artificial Conception: The Challenge for Family Law, Virginia Law Review 69:465 (1983).

Warnock Report, at 47.

Victoria, Committee to Consider the Social, Ethical and Legal Issues Arising from In Vitro Fertilisation, Interim Report (September 1982); Report on Donor Gametes in IVF (April 1983).

Australia, Family Law Council, Committee on Reproductive Technology, Creating Children (Australian Govt. Publishing Service, 1985). See also, news release, Bowen L.K. Mr. (Attorney-General), August 21, 1985 69/85.

Bowen new release, supra note 33.

This is described by Johnston I. Dr. (Melbourne) in Australia Senate Standing Committee, Constitutional and Legal Affairs, IVF and the Status of Children 6 (1985) (hereafter “Senate Report”).

In Re A Baby, unreported, Times Law Report, January 15, 1985.

Surrogacy Arrangements Act 1985 (UK).

Infertility (Medical Procedures) Act 1984 (Vic).

Sydney Morning Herald, January 31, 1986.

Cf. Kirby M.D. , From Hagar to Baby Cotton—Surrogacy, 85, Australia and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 25: 151 (1985).

See Jessep O. Chisholm R. , Children, The Constitution and the Family Court, University OF New South Wales Law Journal 8: 152, 168–69 (1985).

Cormick v. Salmon (1984) FLC 91–554, (1984) 59 ALJR 151 (HC); Cook Re Maxwell JJ ; ex parte C (1985) FLC 91–619, 10 Fam LR 99.

See Senate Report at 13. Note Artificial Conception Act 1984 (NSW), Artificial Conception Ordinance 1985 (ACT), and other legislation there mentioned.

Senate Report, at 58.

Charlesworth M. , Biotechnology and Bioethics—New Ways of Life and Death, Current Affairs Bulletin 61:4, 7 (1984).