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Media coverage of our Re M Court of Appeal victory
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...
Court of Appeal victory in our Re M posthumous conception case
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...
Legal issues for transgender parents – Article published in Fertility Network UK magazine
Natalie has written an article for transgender parents conceiving children, published in the Fertility Network UK magazine. It covers legal rights in relation to eggs and sperm in storage, as well as legal parenthood, with two case studies showing how the law works in...
NGA wins Solicitors’ Journal award
We were thrilled to win recognition at the Solicitors’ Journal Awards last week, at a black tie ceremony hosted by Andrew Marr in Covent Garden. The awards recognised the year’s leading UK law firms working in different areas of practice. We were nominated as Family...
Media coverage of the landmark human rights ruling in our single dad surrogacy case
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...
Victory in our single dad surrogacy case – President of the High Court Family Division makes declaration of incompatibility
We are thrilled to report victory in our long-running case which has sought to challenge the discrimination against single parents in UK surrogacy law. Sir James Munby, the President of the High Court Family Division, has today made a formal declaration that UK law...
Transgender parents and UK fertility law
There is growing awareness in the UK of the fertility needs of transgender people. Hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgery often affect fertility and so, like cancer patients having chemotherapy, a transgender man or woman going through a gender transition...
Court of Appeal gives permission to appeal in the Re M posthumous conception case
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...
High Court gives guidance for international surrogacy cases, after newborn surrogate twins are left stranded for a year in India
In yet another decision to highlight the deficiencies of UK surrogacy law, the High Court has criticised the handling of an international surrogacy case in which twins born to British parents were left stranded in India for more than a year. The important decision of...
What happens when a couple with frozen embryos divorces?
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...
High court rules in favour of lesbian parents, refusing sperm donor’s application for contact
The High Court has refused a known sperm donor’s application for regular involvement with the baby he helped a lesbian couple conceive. Although Mrs Justice Theis had previously given the known donor ‘leave’ to bring a court application, she ultimately rejected the...
NGA quoted in the Guardian: The kindness of strangers – should surrogates get paid?
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...
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