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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...
NGA assists with Big Voice London’s model Law Commission project on surrogacy
The NGA team has been delighted to support a project run by Big Voice London on surrogacy law reform, asking whether the law in the UK needs to be updated. Each year, Big Voice London (a project supported by the UK Supreme Court and Law Commission) runs a model Law...
Recognition for NGA as a top UK family law firm
We have had a busy few months at NGA, with a lot to be excited about. Chambers and Legal 500 The UK’s two main legal directories have published their independent research findings, and we are – once again – ranked as a top family law firm. Including NGA in the select...
An end to surrogacy in India for UK couples?
Surrogacy has hit the headlines again, with India apparently in the process of prohibiting foreign couples engaging in surrogacy there. With hundreds of UK parents travelling to India for surrogacy each year, this will be a significant blow. Surrogacy laws have...
Mitochondrial Donation becomes licensable in the UK from today
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 contributes to Stonewall’s new guide for gay dads
NGA Law has been delighted to write the family law content for Stonewall's new guide for gay dads. Covering surrogacy, known donation and co-parenting we have written the content in the guide on legal parenthood, and how to manage the practicalities of building a...
Administrative errors at IVF clinics jeopardise families’ legal parenthood
In this recent case, the President of the Family Division made damming criticisms of IVF clinics across the UK, and their regulator the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, highlighting a pattern of “widespread incompetence” across the sector. This case was...
NGA nominated as Family Law Firm of the Year
We are thrilled to have been nominated for family law firm of the year at the 2015 Family Law Awards! This is a very prestigious event in the family law calendar with the key firms and leading individuals in family law all in attendance. We are very much looking...
High Court rules it cannot grant birth certificates to single dads through surrogacy
In a High Court decision today, the President of the Family Division has ruled that UK law cannot be stretched to recognise children born to single parents through surrogacy. Denying a parental order to a British single father being represented by the NGA team,...
High Court awards parental order in first South African surrogacy case
Following a recent ruling by the High Court (Re A [2015] EWHC 1756 (Fam)), legal parenthood has been awarded to a same sex couple who had a child, born through surrogacy, in South Africa. The parents have previously had a little boy by a different surrogate in South...
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