Surrogate girl, 6, loses battle to list her father on UK birth certificate

Child's case argued that practice of naming surrogate mother's husband breached her human rights

A six-year-old British girl who was born to a surrogate mother using an anonymous donated egg and sperm from her biological father has lost her case in the European court of human rights to have her father named on her birth certificate.

In a complex case where five people were involved in her birth - a same-sex male couple, one of whom is her biological father, a surrogate mother and her husband and the anonymous egg donor - the European court of human rights ruled the case was manifestly unfounded".