Moran and Kemp and Deputy Registrar for the Parish of St Helier
The Royal Court held that an illegitimate child in Jersey takes the mother’s surname by customary law, so the Registrar could not register the father’s surname.
- Registration-of-a-child’s-surname
- Illegitimate-child
- Customary-law
- Statutory-interpretation
- Article-8-echr
- Article-14-echr