The Hague Conference on Private International Law is considering a new global convention on international surrogacy. This follows previous international Hague Conventions regulating inter-country adoption and international child abduction, and marks a response to the...
We were thrilled to host a reception at the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday evening to celebrate the change to UK law giving parents through surrogacy rights to maternity leave and pay. NGA co-hosted the reception with John Healey MP, and it was attended by the...
This is a précis of a longer piece Helen and Natalie have written for Bionews, which you can read in full here. We at Natalie Gamble Associates have been pressing for a better framework for UK surrogacy for some time. We live in a globalised world in which commercial...
To mark the launch of Brilliant Beginnings - the UK's first surrogacy organisation to offer a fully-managed professional surrogacy pathway - Natalie and Helen were asked to write a comment piece for this week's Bionews, covering how they see the future of surrogacy in...
The High Court’s main surrogacy judge, Mrs Justice Theis, has made her decisions in three new international surrogacy cases public, something she only does if she is considering a new issue (to give guidance) or if she wants to draw attention to something which is in...
Hoorah for NGA client Yotam Ottolenghi and his wonderfully heartfelt piece in Saturday’s Guardian: Why I’m coming out as a gay father. In a brave and personal editorial, the renowned TV chef and restarauter has spoken out about his long journey to fatherhood as a gay...
In the run up to the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology’s Annual Conference, the British Infertility Counselling Association and the International Infertility Counselling Organisation gathered a group of international clinicians and counsellors, in...
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...
We have been working with Coronation Street on their surrogacy storyline (the first in a mainstream UK soap) which has come to a head this week, with surrogate Tina making the emotional decision about whether to hand baby Jake back to his biological parents Gary and...
Natalie was delighted to write an article for Fertility Network UK magazine about the success in our campaign to win maternity leave rights for parents through surrogacy. Explaining the government's announcement that it plans to change the law, Natalie sets out what...