High Court rules both same-sex parents are legal parents after fertility clinic error – important new NGA case on legal parenthood

by Franklyn | Aug 23, 2021 | Donor conception, LGBT+ family building

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...

Parental responsibility granted in a disputed lesbian parenting case – Article published in The Review

by Franklyn | Jun 4, 2021 | Donor conception, LGBT+ family building

We have written an article, published in The Review, about an important recent decision on same-sex parenting where the High Court ruled in favour of a non-birth lesbian mother seeking parental responsibility despite her lack of legal parenthood. Read the article in...

LBT Women’s Health Week: Webinar with Natalie Gamble

by Franklyn | Apr 12, 2021 | Donor conception, LGBT+ family building

Natalie was pleased to support LBT Women’s Health Week this year with a talk to leading national charity Fertility Network UK about the options lesbian, bisexual and transgender women have for starting a family. Watch the recorded webinar It includes discussion of...

Celebrating Pride with a look back at UK legal milestones for LGBT+ families.

by Franklyn | Jun 21, 2019 | Adoption, Donor conception, Gender identity, LGBT+ family building, Surrogacy

To celebrate Pride, we look back at some of the UK’s major legal milestones for LGBT+ families over the past 15 years. It’s amazing to think that only 15 years ago LGBT partnerships, parenthood and non-cisgender identity were all completely invisible in the eyes of UK...

Streamlining declarations of parentage after sperm donation – Article published in The Review

by Natalie | Oct 22, 2018 | Donor conception, LGBT+ family building

We have written an article, published in The Review, the journal for English family lawyers, about the recent NGA case of AD to AH (2017) and what it means for parents through sperm donation. The case is the latest in a string of cases in which errors at fertility...