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What the Handmaid’s Tale has taught me about surrogacy – Article published in Bionews
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...
President of the Family Division gives guidance on sperm donation parentage cases in leading NGA case
Sir James Munby, the President of the High Court Family Division, has given important new guidance on how the family court should deal with cases concerning legal parenthood after sperm donation. It follows 34 High Court declarations of parentage made over the past...
NGA speaks at Academy of Assisted Reproductive Technology Attorneys conference in Montreal, Canada
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...
UK Court of Appeal rules that baby should live with surrogate after ‘Facebook’ arrangement ends in dispute
The UK Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by a same-sex couple against a High Court ruling last year that their gestational surrogate could keep the baby she carried for them. The couple met the surrogate on a Facebook group and, after a brief meeting at Burger...
UK law to change for single parents through surrogacy
We are thrilled to announce that UK law will be changed to permit single parents who have children through surrogacy to apply for a parental order. Under the current law, only couples can apply for a parental order to fully secure their parentage after surrogacy. ...
Making a will after fertility treatment – Article published in Fertility Network UK magazine
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...
High Court highlights the importance of establishing ‘domicile’ in international surrogacy cases (new NGA leading case)
High Court judge Mrs Justice Theis has granted parental orders for two children born through a gestational surrogacy arrangement in the US. On the surface this is yet another international surrogacy case – one of the many which are seen by the UK High Court every...
NGA at the House of Lords debate on surrogacy law reform
Helen and Natalie were invited to attend a debate in the House of Lords this evening on UK surrogacy law reform, together with other members of the surrogacy community. Led by Baroness Barker, the debate aired some of the current problems experienced by parents,...
NGA quoted in The Times – Hey miss superstar: they’re my embryos too
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....
Natalie speaks to the UK Family Law Bar Association national conference about surrogacy and modern families
Natalie was invited to the FLBA national conference last weekend, as one of a number of speakers including the President of the Family Division and Lord Justice McFarlane from the Court of Appeal, to address family law barristers from across the UK. Natalie talked...
UK surrogate vetoes legal parenthood for biological parents despite having no wish to be involved in children’s lives
The High Court has ruled that it cannot award legal parenthood to the biological parents of twins born through a UK surrogacy arrangement, because the surrogate who carried them has refused to give her permission. Under UK law, surrogacy agreements are unenforceable...
NGA quoted in the Independent – NHS hospitals forcing surrogate families to hand over newborn babies in car parks
Today's Independent has featured a news piece about problems experienced by parents through UK surrogacy caused by the lack of at-birth legal parenthood, resulting in NHS hospitals forcing surrogates to hand over babies to their parents in hospital car parks rather...
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