We were asked to write an article for Fertility Road magazine about surrogacy law in the UK. It corrects our top 5 surrogacy myths: 1. Your surrogate might keep the baby 2. Going overseas for surrogacy is better because you will be the legal parents from birth 3. It's...
The Evening Standard has featured an article about the rise of surrogacy, looking at the options in the UK and overseas and the costs for intended parents. Our director Helen Prosser is quoted extensively throughout the article: According to Helen Prosser, co-owner...
The UK Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by a same-sex couple against a High Court ruling last year that their gestational surrogate could keep the baby she carried for them. The couple met the surrogate on a Facebook group and, after a brief meeting at Burger...
The High Court has ruled that it cannot award legal parenthood to the biological parents of twins born through a UK surrogacy arrangement, because the surrogate who carried them has refused to give her permission. Under UK law, surrogacy agreements are unenforceable...
Today's Independent has featured a news piece about problems experienced by parents through UK surrogacy caused by the lack of at-birth legal parenthood, resulting in NHS hospitals forcing surrogates to hand over babies to their parents in hospital car parks rather...
High Court judge Ms Justice Russell has ruled that a baby boy should remain living with the gestational surrogate who carried him, after a UK surrogacy arrangement went badly wrong. The case is a cautionary tale of the risks for all sides where informal surrogacy...
The decision of the High Court in the leading NGA case of Re A, B and C (2016) has been reported in today's Daily Telegraph. The case involved a gay couple who engaged in three different surrogacy arrangements via a UK surrogacy Facebook group, and misled the family...
Natalie and NGA paralegal Melissa Elsworth have written an article for International Family Law about the future of UK surrogacy law. They consider the proposals recently put to Parliament by Jessica Lee MP for a new legal structure for UK surrogacy, arguing that a...
NGA has been in the news this week, having represented a same-sex couple awarded main care of their baby daughter after a 15 month High Court battle. In H v S (Surrogacy Agreement) 2015, Ms Justice Russell decided that it was in the girl’s best interests to live with...
Today's Telegraph includes a feature about surrogacy in the UK entitled 'How to have a baby by surrogate in the UK' following an interview with Natalie to answer various questions, including: Is surrogacy right for you? There are lots of reasons why a couple would use...