NGA has been quoted in a long piece in today's Independent about the Law Commission's announcement that it plans to review UK surrogacy law. Highlighting the many problems with the existing laws, and the consensus across surrogacy organisations and MPs that reform is...
Last night Natalie was one of the expert speakers at Positive Parenting, a special event for HIV+ parents for World AIDS Day on 1 December. Bringing together HIV positive mums and dads and the professionals who support them, hosted by P3 Parents and supported by the...
We are thrilled to announce that the government has, this morning, sent a draft remedial order to Parliament to change the law on surrogacy for single parents. If passed, it will enable single mothers and fathers to apply for secure legal status for their families in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Natalie has written a comment piece in this week's Bionews about ethical surrogacy from a feminist perspective. With the Handmaid's Tale on the TV again, she sets out that - rather than being a cautionary tale against surrogacy - it underlines exactly why informed...
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...