It has been a busy few months for our whole team speaking at events and seminars across the UK and abroad. AAARTA (the American Academy of Assisted Reproduction Attorneys) hosted a conference on assisted reproduction law in Charleston, USA on 10-12 November, bringing...
We have written an article for Family Law about the landmark decision in same-sex parenting case Re G and Re Z (2013) from earlier this year. The case involved a lesbian couple (represented by NGA) who had conceived a son through an arrangement with a known donor. ...
We have written an article for Fertility Network UK about the court ruling in the case of Re G and Re Z, in which two sperm donors were given permission by the court to make an application for rights of contact. Natalie's article sets out the significance of the case...
Natalie was delighted to be invited to speak at the Modern Families conference in St Helier, Jersey on Friday 4 October. A gathering of leading lawyers, practitioners and academics, the conference (organised by the Association of Lawyers for Children and Hanson...
Our team had a great day exhibiting at this year’s Alternative Parenting Show on Saturday. The popular show – which has been running for 3 years – is held in central London and is often a first port of call for parents looking for information about building families...
Following our blog earlier in the year where we reported on the progress of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill we are delighted that the Bill has now received royal assent. After much debate and somewhat of a furore, this means that same sex marriage is now law,...
A UK man who donated sperm to a married woman he met via a sperm donor website has been ordered to pay child support. The pair met via a website advertising sperm donors and started trying to conceive artificially, before they began an affair. The High Court heard...
Natalie was delighted to speak alongside Baroness Hale at a conference in London on 20-21 June of leading UK and international experts in donor conception and alternative reproduction. Baroness Hale of Richmond (first woman Justice of the Supreme Court, and former...
Richard has written an article for Bionews about the High Court’s recent decision that a lesbian non birth mother is ‘not a parent’ due to errors at a fertility clinic. The case involved a lesbian couple who had been in a relationship for 13 years and had started a...
There are many issues to consider for parents considering conceiving with a known donor or co-parent. With a minefield of information to navigate, parents can be left asking: what do we need to know? How do we set things up? How do we avoid problems in the future?...