We were asked to write an article for Fertility Road magazine about surrogacy law in the UK. It corrects our top 5 surrogacy myths: 1. Your surrogate might keep the baby 2. Going overseas for surrogacy is better because you will be the legal parents from birth 3. It's...
International surrogacy
Is it too late to change your mind if you decided against applying for a parental order when your child was born? Article published in Lexis Nexis
We have written an article for Lexis Nexis online about the case of Re B (Foreign Surrogacy) [2016] EWFC 77, in which the High Court allowed parents through surrogacy in India to apply for a parental order six years after the application deadline of six months had...
NGA quoted in the Evening Standard – Why surrogate pregnancies are on the rise
The Evening Standard has featured an article about the rise of surrogacy, looking at the options in the UK and overseas and the costs for intended parents. Our director Helen Prosser is quoted extensively throughout the article: According to Helen Prosser, co-owner...
Single parents eagerly await remedial order as another parental order application is stayed pending a change in the law
In 2016 NGA Law represented a single father who had a child through surrogacy in the US in a parental order application, and managed to win a formal declaration from the President of the High Court Family Division that the current law discriminates against single...
Re Z and surrogacy law reform – Article published in International Family Law
We have written an article published in International Family Law, about the case of Re Z (no. 2) and the High Court having made a declaration of incompatibility ruling that UK surrogacy law discriminates against single parents. Explaining the case background and what...
NGA speaks at Academy of Assisted Reproductive Technology Attorneys conference in Montreal, Canada
Natalie was delighted to speak to the Academy of Assisted Reprodutive Technology Attorneys conference in Montreal, Canada in May 2017. To an audience of global fertility lawyers, she shared the UK perspective on managing long term welfare issues for donor and...
High Court highlights the importance of establishing ‘domicile’ in international surrogacy cases (new NGA leading case)
High Court judge Mrs Justice Theis has granted parental orders for two children born through a gestational surrogacy arrangement in the US. On the surface this is yet another international surrogacy case – one of the many which are seen by the UK High Court every...
Single parent surrogacy – what the High Court ruling really means – Article published in Bionews
Natalie has, together with our counsel in the case of Re Z Elizabeth Isaacs QC and Adem Muzaffer, written a comment piece for this week’s Bionews explaining the significant of the High Court's ruling in the case, which looks set to change the law for single parents...
Victory in our single dad surrogacy case – President of the High Court Family Division makes declaration of incompatibility
We are thrilled to report victory in our long-running case which has sought to challenge the discrimination against single parents in UK surrogacy law. Sir James Munby, the President of the High Court Family Division, has today made a formal declaration that UK law...
High Court gives guidance for international surrogacy cases, after newborn surrogate twins are left stranded for a year in India
In yet another decision to highlight the deficiencies of UK surrogacy law, the High Court has criticised the handling of an international surrogacy case in which twins born to British parents were left stranded in India for more than a year. The important decision of...