Going solo: fertility treatment options and the law for women starting a family on their own – Article published in Bionews
Natalie has written a comment piece for this week’s Bionews about women who start a family on their own as solo mothers. Looking at sperm donation at clinics, as well as known donation and co-parenting, Natalie considers the legal issues associated with the...
Moving surrogacy law forward? The Department of Health’s consultation on parental orders – Article published in Bionews
Natalie has written a comment piece in this week’s Bionews about the Department of Health’s consulation on updates to the parental order regulations. Explaining what is in the proposed new regulations, the article looks at the parental order system as a...
Two mums and a baby – Article published in Fertility Network UK magazine
We have written an article, published in Fertility Network UK magazine, summarising the new law for same-sex parents conceiving children together. Read ‘Two mums and a baby: same-sex parents and the new rules on birth certificates’. The UK’s leading...
Considering the need for a father – Article published in Reproductive Biomedicine Online
Since 1991 UK fertility clinics have had a legal duty to consider the ‘need for a father’ of any child who may be born as a result of treatment. In an in-depth article for Reproductive Biomedicine Online, Natalie examines the origins of that legal...
Modern surrogacy in the UK – Article published in The Review
Natalie has written a guide to the basics of surrogacy for other UK family lawyers. Published in The Review, it sets out what surrogacy is, how parents find surrogates and what the law says, as well as giving a couple of case study examples. Read the full article...
Morally straightforward but legally complex: a welcome change to the new embryo storage rules – Article published in Bionews
Natalie has written a comment piece in this week’s Bionews about the new embryo storage regulations. Originally planned as a call on the government to amend the proposed new regulations to ensure that a group of precious embryos were not excluded from the new...
Stonewall’s Pregnant Pause: a guide for lesbians on how to get pregnant – with legal info by NGA Law
Stonewall has launched a beautifully illustrated new publication for lesbians who are thinking of starting a family. Called Pregnant Pause, it gives a wealth of up to date information on the different options available to lesbian parents, including NHS funded...
Crossing the line: the legal and ethical problems of foreign surrogacy – Article published in Reproductive Biomedicine
Natalie has written article for the journal Reproductive Biomedicine Online about international surrogacy. Following the leading case of Re X and Y (2008) – the first in which a UK court has granted legal parenthood to parents who entered into a commercial...
Re X and Y: a trek through a thorn forest – Article published in Family Law
Natalie has co-written an article with Lucy Theis QC for Family Law about the leading surrogacy case of Re X and Y (2008), the UK’s first parental order to be granted following an international commercial surrogacy arrangement, and in which NGA represented the...
Fathers or donors? The legal position of friends who act as informal sperm donors – Article published in Bionews
Natalie has written a comment piece for this week’s Bionews about how the law works if you conceive with an informal sperm donor. A sperm donor may have his legal parenthood excluded following home insemination, but he may be the legal father – depending on the...