NGA has been quoted in today's Telegraph, on the case of Kyle Casson, the single dad through surrogacy who was granted an adoption order to secure his legal parenthood. Natalie was quoted about the law's failure to allow single parents to apply for parental orders....
The UK High Court has awarded an adoption order to a single dad through surrogacy, in the first case of its kind in the UK. Describing the law as a ‘minefield’, Mrs Justice Theis said she was satisfied that an adoption order was in the best interests of the baby. The...
Nicola has written an article for Gay Star News about the implications of the recent High Court ruling allowing late parental order applications. For gay dads (and other parents) who already have a child through surrogacy but missed the boat for applying for a...
NGA has been interviewed by today's BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour, reflecting on 30 years since the birth of baby Cotton, the UK's first well-known surrogacy baby. The media storm around the 1985 case involving Kim Cotton led to the rushing through Parliament of the...
Until now, intended parents could only apply to become legal parents within six months of the birth of their child. But in a key ruling today, the President of the High Court Family Division, Sir Justice Munby, has said that even though the law states that an...
In 2011, the NGA team helped Alice Jolly and her husband to complete their family through US surrogacy after an incredibly difficult journey of repeated miscarriages and stillbirth. Alice is a novelist and playwright (and author of soon-to-be published novel Dead...
We have been busy over the last few weeks speaking to the media about the baby Gammy case and why surrogacy law needs to be brought up to date. Amidst a storm of media discussion about the law and ethics of international surrogacy, we were interviewed by the...
The Telegraph has today reported the case of NGA clients Viral and Tulsi Patel, whose son was born through surrogacy in India but who has still - months after his birth - not been issued with a British passport to be able to come home. Natalie Gamble, the...
Natalie has written a comment piece in this week's Bionews appealing to the government to make sure that the proposed new regulations introducing a form of maternity leave for parents through surrogacy effectively include parents who have children born through...
In its latest published international surrogacy decision, the High Court has awarded a British-French couple living in France a parental order in respect of their son born through international surrogacy. The case makes clear that you don’t need to live in the UK to...