Natalie and Helen were delighted to attend a reception at the House of Lords on Tuesday evening to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Donor Conception Network, a world-leading charity which helps support families conceived through donation and has been instrumental...
There are various different ways to conceive a family as a lesbian couple, but one which often prompts questions about the law is home insemination with a known sperm donor. We have put this Q&A together to answer some of the most common questions we are asked. “I...
Sir James Munby, the President of the High Court Family Division, has given important new guidance on how the family court should deal with cases concerning legal parenthood after sperm donation. It follows 34 High Court declarations of parentage made over the past...
The Times has reported the case of US actress Sofia Vergara, who is in a dispute with her ex-partner Nick Loeb, about whether he should be able to use their stored embryos. Quoting NGA as leading experts in UK fertility law, the article says: UK law is more precise....
Further to our blog last September about administrative errors made by IVF clinic there have been another run of declaration of parentage cases, nicknamed the “Alphabet” cases, before the President of the Family Division. Following a national audit of fertility...
We are delighted to report that the Court of Appeal has granted our clients' appeal in the case of Re M today, allowing Mr and Mrs M to export the eggs of their late daughter in order to honour her wishes and try to conceive a child after her death. With a storm of...
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...
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...
Congratulations to Beth Warren, who has won her High Court battle to continue storing her husband’s sperm, overturning a Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority ruling that the sperm would have to be destroyed next April. The issue in the case was not about...