Natalie has written a short snappy article for the Fertility Network UK magazine about the recent High Court ruling in our Re Z case (which declared the law incompatible with the rights of single parents) and its significance. Read Natalie’s article 'Surrogacy law is...
The Law Commission (the UK’s independent body which reviews out of date laws and recommends whether and how they should be reformed) is considering whether to review UK surrogacy law as part of its next programme. Following the human rights declaration made in our...
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...
NGA has been interviewed by the Law Society Gazette about the Law Commission's announcement that it plans to review UK surrogacy law, and our leading role in pushing for law reform. The piece says: Identifying surrogacy as an area of law where reform may be required,...
Natalie has written a short article for Family Law about the urgent need for surrogacy law reform, and how we think the law should change. We hope it will encourage UK family lawyers to get on board with our campaign for surrogacy law reform. Read the full article...
We have had a flurry of media coverage in response to the ruling in our single dad surrogacy case declaring the law incompatible with human rights. The Times (21 May 2016) - Single father wins legal right to bring up surrogate child: "Natalie Gamble, solicitor for the...
The Guardian's Weekend magazine today includes a long feature about surrogacy, thoughtfully covering the challenges of the existing law as well as the experience of parents going through the process in the UK and overseas. As well as featuring six of the landmark...
The NGA team has been delighted to support a project run by Big Voice London on surrogacy law reform, asking whether the law in the UK needs to be updated. Each year, Big Voice London (a project supported by the UK Supreme Court and Law Commission) runs a model Law...
In a High Court decision today, the President of the Family Division has ruled that UK law cannot be stretched to recognise children born to single parents through surrogacy. Denying a parental order to a British single father being represented by the NGA team,...
Natalie and NGA paralegal Melissa Elsworth have written an article for International Family Law about the future of UK surrogacy law. They consider the proposals recently put to Parliament by Jessica Lee MP for a new legal structure for UK surrogacy, arguing that a...