The BBC has reported a surrogacy case involving a British couple who are anticipating the birth of four babies through surrogacy – two sets of twins being carried simultaneously by two Indian surrogate mothers. Natalie was interviewed for the piece, by Poonam...
We recently wrote for our blog about our evidence to the Hague Conference about whether international surrogacy should be regulated globally. The Hague has now asked us to help them make a final appeal for information, targeting health professionals and surrogacy...
Natalie was delighted to be invited to speak at the Modern Families conference in St Helier, Jersey on Friday 4 October. A gathering of leading lawyers, practitioners and academics, the conference (organised by the Association of Lawyers for Children and Hanson...
The HFEA’s new Code of Practice, which comes into force today, contains new guidance for UK fertility clinics dealing with surrogacy cases. The changes affect how clinics deal with the forms which allocate legal parenthood in surrogacy cases. Cases where the...
The European Court of Justice has given conflicting opinions in two cases concerning whether European mothers through surrogacy should be entitled to maternity leave. In the first case, the Advocate General (adviser to the court) said that a UK mother should be given...
The Hague Conference on Private International Law is considering a new global convention on international surrogacy. This follows previous international Hague Conventions regulating inter-country adoption and international child abduction, and marks a response to the...
We were thrilled to host a reception at the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday evening to celebrate the change to UK law giving parents through surrogacy rights to maternity leave and pay. NGA co-hosted the reception with John Healey MP, and it was attended by the...
This is a précis of a longer piece Helen and Natalie have written for Bionews, which you can read in full here. We at Natalie Gamble Associates have been pressing for a better framework for UK surrogacy for some time. We live in a globalised world in which commercial...
To mark the launch of Brilliant Beginnings - the UK's first surrogacy organisation to offer a fully-managed professional surrogacy pathway - Natalie and Helen were asked to write a comment piece for this week's Bionews, covering how they see the future of surrogacy in...
The High Court’s main surrogacy judge, Mrs Justice Theis, has made her decisions in three new international surrogacy cases public, something she only does if she is considering a new issue (to give guidance) or if she wants to draw attention to something which is in...