Britain's top family judge rules that a single father has no rights over his own son

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'A single man's fight to be recognised as the sole parent of a surrogate baby boy that he paid to have born in America has been rejected by a leading High Court judge in a unique test case.

The British man, who cannot be named, paid a US agency £8,000 - and a surrogate mother more than £20,000 - in his bid to become a father.

The unnamed one-year-old boy was conceived using the man's sperm and a donor egg and he has been recognised as the child's father in the state of Minnesota.

But that held no sway with Britain's most senior family judge, the President of the Family Division, Sir James Munby, today in court.

Whatever the position in America, the judge said English law emphatically recognises the surrogate mother as the child's only legal parent.

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 dictates that only 'two people' - effectively a couple - can be officially recognised as the parents of a surrogate baby.'