Kelly was delighted to speak to Rainbow Sisters LBT group to discuss building families. “Rainbow Sisters is a supportive, welcoming and confidential group open to lesbian, bisexual and trans women, and non-binary people seeking asylum.” The Rainbow Sisters group comes...
We welcome the Department of Health’s plans to modernise UK law on egg, sperm and embryo storage, which look set to simplify the law and enable more fertility patients to store genetic material in the UK for longer. What the government is recommending The Department...
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...
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...
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...
We were delighted to give some training to infertility counsellors with the British Infertility Counselling Association last week about the law on parenthood and fertility for transgender patients. Invited by BICA to address their regular training seminar, NGA...
Our director Natalie Gamble was asked to give a class for Global Perspectives at Fertility IQ, an online education series on assisted reproduction around the world. Alongside leading professors, academics and other professionals from 30 different countries, Natalie...
Natalie Gamble recently spoke to the Chambers Inspire LGBT+ Committee for their podcast. You can listen to Natalie’s interview in full on Spotify, in which she reflects on a range of topics, including her career as an out LGBT lawyer, how NGA Law and Brilliant...
Natalie Gamble was part of the panel of speakers discussing known donation at the Progress Educational Trust’s event: ‘Known unknowns: the pros, cons and consequences of known donation’. The event, attended by more than 200 people and covered in a feature on Woman’s...
We have written an article for the British Infertility Counselling Association about managing the legal issues for fertility patients who are separating or getting divorced. In the UK, no one legally ‘owns’ embryos and they are stored with both gamete providers...