The Law Commission has published their final recommendations for UK surrogacy law reform. Here are the key findings and our response.
Surrogacy UK Law
Law Commission to publish its final surrogacy law reform recommendations on 29 March 2023
The Law Commission has announced that its final report (and draft Bill) on surrogacy law reform will be released next Wednesday, 29th March 2023.
Natalie Gamble speaks at LSE panel discussion – Surrogacy law reform
Natalie was delighted to speak at the London School of Economics as part of an expert panel talking about surrogacy law reform on 21 February 2023.
Resolution podcast interviews Natalie Gamble on surrogacy law reform
Natalie spoke with the ‘Talking Family Law’ podcast about surrogacy law in anticipation of the Law Commission publishing its report on law reform in 2023.
High Court rules both same-sex parents are legal parents after fertility clinic error – important new NGA case on legal parenthood
NGA Law has secured a judgment from the High Court Family Division confirming that our clients, a same-sex couple with a child born through sperm donation in the UK, are the legal parents of their son. The decision comes as a huge relief to the two mums, who relied on...
UK High Court awards parenthood following international surrogacy, despite potential illegality in the country of birth – new NGA reported case
The High Court has awarded legal parenthood to a British couple who had a little boy via a surrogacy arrangement which (without the parents’ knowledge) may have been unlawful in the country where their baby was born (country Z). NGA Law successfully represented the...
UK Supreme Court says commercial surrogacy is no longer against UK public policy – Article published in The Review
Natalie and Heidi have written for the latest edition of The Review about an important new Supreme Court decision on surrogacy. The case of Whittington Hospital NHS Trust v XX [2020] UKSC 14 involved a negligence claim brought by a woman who sought compensation to...
High Court ruling in another NGA case – What happens when a parent dies mid-surrogacy journey?
A new reported surrogacy case (Re X (2020)) in which NGA Law represented the parents has, in tragic circumstances, highlighted once again the inadequacy of UK surrogacy law. A straightforward UK surrogacy case became complicated when the intended father died...
Surrogacy law reform- Article published in Fertility Road
We were asked to write an article for Fertility Road magazine about the Law Commission's surrogacy law reform provisional proposals. Setting out what the proposals say, what we think, we urge any intended parents interested in surrogacy to respond to the...
Our views on the Law Commission surrogacy reform proposals
The Law Commission’s surrogacy reform consultation is a once-in-a-generation chance to get surrogacy law right. We have spent the last few months carefully considering our response, drawing on our legal and practical experience of over 1,000 surrogacy cases, as well...