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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]

If hon. Members will allow me, I shall make a couple of minutes progress, then I promise that I shall give way generously. I understand that many hon. Members want to get involved. I have some other advice relating to other cases in which this matter has been raised before. For example, a 1990 custody judgment involving a minor featured this statement about the balancing of rights:"““The question was not where””" the individual child"““would get the better home. The question was: was it demonstrated that the welfare of the child positively demanded the displacement of the parental right.””" That is the key to what we are saying. My view, and I believe that of eminent lawyers, is that this is a balance of rights, and in the end, in the case of human rights, the courts must place as paramount the rights of the child.