Natalie Gamble was delighted to speak at Reproductive Medicine 2009 yesterday. The conference was a two day event at the Institute of Physics in London, assembling leading clinicians and other professionals involved in assisted reproduction. Natalie was invited to...
Surrogacy
Government bows to pressure on embryo storage rules – NGA victory and in the news
We welcome the Department of Health’s announcement today that embryos which exceed their five year storage period before 1 October 2009 will not now have to be destroyed (article in the Times today). We have been in contact with the Department of Health on this issue...
NGA quoted in the Sunday Times – Embryo storage law leaves some parents out in the cold
Natalie Gamble was quoted in the Sunday Times on 5 July (and in the Daily Mail on 6 July) on problems raised by the government’s proposed new embryo storage laws. Fertility law allows people facing medical treatment which will make them infertile to store eggs, sperm...
NGA on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour on surrogacy
Natalie Gamble was delighted to be interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour on Friday 19 June 2009 on the subject of surrogacy. The item, chaired by Jennie Murray, looked at the rights of commissioning mothers to leave from work following the birth of a child through...
Crossing the line: the legal and ethical problems of foreign surrogacy – Article published in Reproductive Biomedicine
Natalie has written article for the journal Reproductive Biomedicine Online about international surrogacy. Following the leading case of Re X and Y (2008) - the first in which a UK court has granted legal parenthood to parents who entered into a commercial surrogacy...
NGA quoted in the Evening Standard on the legal problems of foreign surrogacy
Today’s Evening Standard has highlighted the potential legal minefield for British parents of foreign-born surrogate children. Following extensive coverage of the boom in Indian surrogacy earlier in the week (and the leading case of Re X and Y which was the first...
Re X and Y: a trek through a thorn forest – Article published in Family Law
Natalie has co-written an article with Lucy Theis QC for Family Law about the leading surrogacy case of Re X and Y (2008), the UK's first parental order to be granted following an international commercial surrogacy arrangement, and in which NGA represented the...
Media coverage of first international surrogacy case
Natalie Gamble successful represented the parents in Re X and Y (2008), the UK's first parents to be granted a parental order following a surrogacy arrangement outside the UK. The judge's decision was reported, leading to national media coverage of the landmark case....
Children of our time – Article published in Family Law Journal
Natalie has written an article for Family Law Journal setting out the hisotry of UK surrogacy law in the UK and considering whether a review is needed. Read the full article here.The UK's leading surrogacy lawyers Find out more about how we support families through...
Natalie Gamble in the media defending new legal rights for LGBT+ parents
Throughout 2007 and 2008, our founder Natalie Gamble was a prominent voice in the fight for legal recognition for same-sex parents. A key defender of the new rights for lesbian mums, as well as changes to surrogacy law to recognise a broader range of families, in the...