Fertility preservation is of particular significance for any trans young person embarking upon a treatment programme which may compromise their fertility. Any consideration of hormone or other treatment must include the fact that egg or sperm quality might be impaired...
We have written an article for the Fertility Network UK magazine about why fertility patients should consider making a will. Covering what happens to stored embryos after death, legal parenthood and surrogacy, the article looks at some of the issues that those having...
The Times has reported the case of US actress Sofia Vergara, who is in a dispute with her ex-partner Nick Loeb, about whether he should be able to use their stored embryos. Quoting NGA as leading experts in UK fertility law, the article says: UK law is more precise....
The national (and international) media has been covering the Court of Appeal ruling in NGA case Re M. BBC News (reported as the 2nd item on the main national news, 30 June 2016): A woman who wants to use her dead daughter's frozen eggs to give birth to her own...
We are delighted to report that the Court of Appeal has granted our clients' appeal in the case of Re M today, allowing Mr and Mrs M to export the eggs of their late daughter in order to honour her wishes and try to conceive a child after her death. With a storm of...
We welcome the news that the Court of Appeal has today given our clients, Mr and Mrs M, permission to bring an appeal in the case of IM v HFEA (Re M). The case involves the stored frozen eggs of a young woman who died prematurely from cancer. Her parents, Mr and Mrs...
In a recent Californian case, a judge ordered that a divorced couple’s frozen embryos should be destroyed. The embryos were created after the ex-wife, Lee’s, diagnosis of breast cancer, as following her treatment, it would be very difficult for her to conceive...
On 3 February 2015, the House of Commons voted to approve the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Mitochondrial Donation) Regulations 2015, and made the UK the first country in the world where mitochondrial donation is both scientifically possible and legally allowed....
NGA Law has been in the news again this week, having represented the parents of a brave and determined young woman who died following bowel cancer in her late 20s. Our clients’ daughter, AM, had her eggs collected knowing she was gravely ill and signed a consent form...
The UK Parliament decided yesterday to change the law to allow a new kind of fertility treatment, which involves ground-breaking scientific techniques to prevent mitochondrial disease. The decision marks the culmination of world-leading research and a careful and...