Celebrating milestones at NGA Law and Brilliant Beginnings
It feels like we keep marking milestones at the moment. In the last two weeks we’ve celebrated NGA Law’s 15th birthday (following BB’s 10th birthday last summer) and Brilliant Beginnings’ Baby 100 also arrived into the world. We’ve all been feeling good and wanted to...
Numbers talk – NGA Law and statistics on international surrogacy
We often get asked how many UK parents go overseas for surrogacy and where they are going. Hard data on the scale of international surrogacy is difficult to find but we can get close with information from the English family court that records the numbers of parental...
Natalie Gamble at the Fertility Show 2024
Natalie was delighted to speak at the Fertility Show at Olympia in London on Saturday 18 May. She was asked to join host Anya Sizer for a Q&A panel on surrogacy together with Fran Simmons, a parent through UK surrogacy and podcaster. Natalie talked to a full...
Natalie speaks at the American Bar Association conference about surrogacy law
Natalie was delighted to speak at the American Bar Association’s conference in Boston, USA on 1-4 May 2024, joining an expert panel of surrogacy law experts from the UK, New Zealand and South Africa. Natalie, a member of the ABA Assisted Reproduction Law...
New NGA Law case on legal parenthood after clinic sperm donation
NGA Law is delighted to have represented the same-sex parents in Re Y-Z (Declaration of Parentage) 2024, a new reported decision from Mrs Justice Theis on legal parenthood for female same-sex parents. This is the latest in a long line of cases in which...
Kelly speaks at the Growing Families event about domicile for UK parents through surrogacy
Kelly was delighted to speak at the Growing Families UK Europe event in London on 21 April 2024. She was asked to talk about domicile (as one of the criteria which at least one of the parents must satisfy to be able to apply for a UK parental order after the birth of...
Step-parent adoption and the Human Rights Act – Article published in The Review
Natalie has written an article published in the Review about an important recent adoption case from the President of the High Court Family Division. It is an example of how the Human Rights Act enables the family court to make the law work humanely, in this case...
Why UK solicitors cannot draft surrogacy agreements
Surrogacy is legal in the United Kingdom. However, UK law includes restrictions on surrogacy which were put in place in 1985 when surrogacy was in its infancy and the policy was not to encourage it as a form of family building. The current law affects how third...