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European Court of Justice – should mothers through surrogacy have a right to maternity leave?
The European Court of Justice has given conflicting opinions in two cases concerning whether European mothers through surrogacy should be entitled to maternity leave. In the first case, the Advocate General (adviser to the court) said that a UK mother should be given...
Hague Convention to regulate international surrogacy?
The Hague Conference on Private International Law is considering a new global convention on international surrogacy. This follows previous international Hague Conventions regulating inter-country adoption and international child abduction, and marks a response to the...
NGA at the Alternative Parenting Show 2013
Our team had a great day exhibiting at this year’s Alternative Parenting Show on Saturday. The popular show – which has been running for 3 years – is held in central London and is often a first port of call for parents looking for information about building families...
NGA hosts House of Commons reception to celebrate the grant of maternity leave rights for surrogacy
We were thrilled to host a reception at the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday evening to celebrate the change to UK law giving parents through surrogacy rights to maternity leave and pay. NGA co-hosted the reception with John Healey MP, and it was attended by the...
NGA launches surrogacy and egg donation agency, Brilliant Beginnings
This is a précis of a longer piece Helen and Natalie have written for Bionews, which you can read in full here. We at Natalie Gamble Associates have been pressing for a better framework for UK surrogacy for some time. We live in a globalised world in which commercial...
The Brilliant Beginnings of surrogacy reform – Article published in Bionews
To mark the launch of Brilliant Beginnings - the UK's first surrogacy organisation to offer a fully-managed professional surrogacy pathway - Natalie and Helen were asked to write a comment piece for this week's Bionews, covering how they see the future of surrogacy in...
UK woman conceives with dead husband’s sperm abroad
The press has reported the case of a UK woman who has won permission from the HFEA to have her deceased husband’s sperm exported abroad for IVF treatment after his death. You can read more about the story here. How does UK law work on post-death use of sperm? The...
High Court decision in three new international surrogacy cases
The High Court’s main surrogacy judge, Mrs Justice Theis, has made her decisions in three new international surrogacy cases public, something she only does if she is considering a new issue (to give guidance) or if she wants to draw attention to something which is in...
Equal Marriage (of sorts) – Gay Marriage becomes legal in England and Wales
Following our blog earlier in the year where we reported on the progress of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill we are delighted that the Bill has now received royal assent. After much debate and somewhat of a furore, this means that same sex marriage is now law,...
Yotam Ottolenghi speaks out on becoming a gay dad through surrogacy
Hoorah for NGA client Yotam Ottolenghi and his wonderfully heartfelt piece in Saturday’s Guardian: Why I’m coming out as a gay father. In a brave and personal editorial, the renowned TV chef and restarauter has spoken out about his long journey to fatherhood as a gay...
Website sperm donor liable for child support after court rules that conception was not artificial
A UK man who donated sperm to a married woman he met via a sperm donor website has been ordered to pay child support. The pair met via a website advertising sperm donors and started trying to conceive artificially, before they began an affair. The High Court heard...
Helen speaks at ESHRE about overseas surrogacy – law and ethics
In the run up to the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology’s Annual Conference, the British Infertility Counselling Association and the International Infertility Counselling Organisation gathered a group of international clinicians and counsellors, in...
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