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Surrogacy transformed my life, but is it morally acceptable?
In 2011, the NGA team helped Alice Jolly and her husband to complete their family through US surrogacy after an incredibly difficult journey of repeated miscarriages and stillbirth. Alice is a novelist and playwright (and author of soon-to-be published novel Dead...
NGA part of BBC Radio 4 programme: Same-sex parents
Natalie was delighted to be part of a half hour special feature on BBC Radio 4 about the different ways same-sex couples are choosing to have children - and the legal issues. Radio 4 describes the programme as follows: Mary Smeeth, herself a mother of 2 boys brought...
Baby Gammy case sparks media debate about surrogacy – NGA in the Guardian, BBC News, the Telegraph, the Sunday Times and more
We have been busy over the last few weeks speaking to the media about the baby Gammy case and why surrogacy law needs to be brought up to date. Amidst a storm of media discussion about the law and ethics of international surrogacy, we were interviewed by the...
NGA in the Telegraph – British baby passport row
The Telegraph has today reported the case of NGA clients Viral and Tulsi Patel, whose son was born through surrogacy in India but who has still - months after his birth - not been issued with a British passport to be able to come home. Natalie Gamble, the...
Maternity leave for surrogacy will fail international surrogacy parents unless we act now – Article published in Bionews
Natalie has written a comment piece in this week's Bionews appealing to the government to make sure that the proposed new regulations introducing a form of maternity leave for parents through surrogacy effectively include parents who have children born through...
International surrogacy: UK High Court awards parenthood to couple living in France
In its latest published international surrogacy decision, the High Court has awarded a British-French couple living in France a parental order in respect of their son born through international surrogacy. The case makes clear that you don’t need to live in the UK to...
Court of Appeal rules for non-birth mother in lesbian parenting case
In an important decision on same sex parenting, the Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of a non-birth lesbian mother seeking parental responsibility (the legal authority to be involved in decision-making), despite her lack of legal parenthood. The non-birth mother...
HFEA reports all time high for lesbian couples conceiving at UK fertility clinics
The UK’s fertility regulator, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, has published its annual report on statistics and trends in UK fertility treatment. One of the headline points this year is a 36% rise in the numbers of lesbian couples conceiving through...
First same sex weddings in England and Wales
Rainbow flags are flying at Westminster and outside town halls across the country today, as same sex couples say their vows and make history. As lawyers, we know that marriage provides no more rights in practice than same sex couples can already access via civil...
NGA quoted in The Independent – NHS fertility treatments allow two-mum families to reach record levels
We are delighted to see the news, reported today, about new HFEA figures showing record numbers of two-mum families being created through fertility treatment. The article quotes Natalie, saying: "Natalie Gamble, a leading fertility lawyer, said: “The law used to say...
High Court deals with legal mess after parents through UK surrogacy separate
A three year old boy born through surrogacy has been left in legal limbo after his parents separated without getting a parental order. The boy had been born through a UK surrogacy arrangement involving the intended mother’s friend. She offered to act as a surrogate...
Widow wins legal fight to extend sperm storage
Congratulations to Beth Warren, who has won her High Court battle to continue storing her husband’s sperm, overturning a Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority ruling that the sperm would have to be destroyed next April. The issue in the case was not about...
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