Natalie has written an article for transgender parents conceiving children, published in the Fertility Network UK magazine. It covers legal rights in relation to eggs and sperm in storage, as well as legal parenthood, with two case studies showing how the law works in...
There is growing awareness in the UK of the fertility needs of transgender people. Hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgery often affect fertility and so, like cancer patients having chemotherapy, a transgender man or woman going through a gender transition...
We welcome the news that the Court of Appeal has today given our clients, Mr and Mrs M, permission to bring an appeal in the case of IM v HFEA (Re M). The case involves the stored frozen eggs of a young woman who died prematurely from cancer. Her parents, Mr and Mrs...
In a recent Californian case, a judge ordered that a divorced couple’s frozen embryos should be destroyed. The embryos were created after the ex-wife, Lee’s, diagnosis of breast cancer, as following her treatment, it would be very difficult for her to conceive...
The High Court has refused a known sperm donor’s application for regular involvement with the baby he helped a lesbian couple conceive. Although Mrs Justice Theis had previously given the known donor ‘leave’ to bring a court application, she ultimately rejected the...
On 3 February 2015, the House of Commons voted to approve the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Mitochondrial Donation) Regulations 2015, and made the UK the first country in the world where mitochondrial donation is both scientifically possible and legally allowed....
In this recent case, the President of the Family Division made damming criticisms of IVF clinics across the UK, and their regulator the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, highlighting a pattern of “widespread incompetence” across the sector. This case was...
NGA Law has been in the news again this week, having represented the parents of a brave and determined young woman who died following bowel cancer in her late 20s. Our clients’ daughter, AM, had her eggs collected knowing she was gravely ill and signed a consent form...
The Times published a full page feature yesterday about us, covering the ground-breaking legal cases we have handled over the last 6 years, our forward-thinking approach to practising law, and our sister organisation Brilliant Beginnings which is creating a model for...
The UK Parliament decided yesterday to change the law to allow a new kind of fertility treatment, which involves ground-breaking scientific techniques to prevent mitochondrial disease. The decision marks the culmination of world-leading research and a careful and...