Embryo donation in the UK and embryo storage
Find out more about embryo donation in the UK and the laws and regulations around embryo storage as well as developments in this area.
Browse our articles and media highlights around donation and storage related topics.
More time needed to decide whether to harvest sperm from man in a coma, court rules
The High Court has suspended an emergency order authorising sperm to be collected from a man in a coma. The man unexpectedly suffered a cardiac arrest late last year, which put him in a vegetative state from which he was unlikely to recover. An application was made...
Lesbian parents and sperm donors – Article published in Family Law Journal
We have written an article for Family Law about the landmark decision in same-sex parenting case Re G and Re Z (2013) from earlier this year. The case involved a lesbian couple (represented by NGA) who had conceived a son through an arrangement with a known donor. ...
NGA launches surrogacy and egg donation agency, Brilliant Beginnings
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...
UK woman conceives with dead husband’s sperm abroad
The press has reported the case of a UK woman who has won permission from the HFEA to have her deceased husband’s sperm exported abroad for IVF treatment after his death. You can read more about the story here. How does UK law work on post-death use of sperm? The...
Website sperm donor liable for child support after court rules that conception was not artificial
A UK man who donated sperm to a married woman he met via a sperm donor website has been ordered to pay child support. The pair met via a website advertising sperm donors and started trying to conceive artificially, before they began an affair. The High Court heard...
Conceiving with a known donor or co-parent – how fertility counsellors can help and what they need to know
There are many issues to consider for parents considering conceiving with a known donor or co-parent. With a minefield of information to navigate, parents can be left asking: what do we need to know? How do we set things up? How do we avoid problems in the future?...
Fertility patient organisations grapple with implications of High Court donor conception ruling
NGA has been contacted by UK patient organisations trying to clarify the implications of the High Court’s ruling, which has allowed two sperm donors to argue in court that they should have rights of contact with their biological children. NGA has been representing the...
Landmark High Court ruling on sperm donation and same sex parenting
The High Court has today made a landmark ruling, allowing two civilly partnered sperm donors the right to ask for contact with their biological children (against the wishes of the children’s respective lesbian mothers), but also warning that it will consider the need...
NGA on today’s BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour – known sperm donors
Natalie was interviewed on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour on Thursday on the topic of private sperm donation. The programme feature NGA client Mark Langridge (the donor who has been pursued for child support by the CSA twelve years after donating his sperm to a lesbian...
NGA quoted in The Guardian – Gay sperm donor pays maintenance for ‘his’ children
The Guardian has reported the case of NGA client Mark Langridge, a sperm donor pursued for maintenance payments: "Natalie Gamble, founder of Natalie Gamble Associates, the UK's foremost experts on fertility law, says the law in this area changed a few years ago. "Had...
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Our sibling organisation, Brilliant Beginnings, is a non-profit surrogacy agency, founded by the NGA Law directors in 2013 to support safe ethical surrogacy.
Brilliant Beginnings offers personal advice consultations as well as managed surrogacy pathways in the UK and USA which include full legal support from NGA Law.
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