A woman has taken a court case against her lesbian former partner in an attempt to re-establish contact with a little girl who called her ‘papa’. The Irish woman’s former partner conceived the child by artificial insemination using donated sperm while they were in a relationship. When they subsequently broke up, the mother of the child returned to her native England with the little girl. The Irish woman is now taking a case to order that the little girl be returned to Ireland. The case was heard in the UK High Court by Justice Holman who said, “It is quite clear that in the period leading up to the birth of the child, both these people were viewing the prospective child as a joint child to be parented by them both jointly.” No decision has yet been given.