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....
A three year old boy born through surrogacy has been left in legal limbo after his parents separated without getting a parental order. The boy had been born through a UK surrogacy arrangement involving the intended mother’s friend. She offered to act as a surrogate...
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...
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 Hague Conference on Private International Law announced last year that it was looking at regulating international surrogacy arrangements. Although the process is at an early stage, any international treaty on surrogacy could have a significant impact on the...
The Telegraph and Daily Mail have reported that womb transplants may soon become a reality for women unable to carry a baby – groundbreaking science creating a ‘more ethical solution than surrogacy’. Yet again, surrogacy is getting a bad press. It is either...
John Healey MP (the former Shadow Secretary of State for Health) spoke clearly and compellingly in the House of Commons this afternoon about the need for proper maternity leave and pay for mothers through surrogacy in the UK (you can watch John Healey’s speech in full...
Channel 5's Vanessa show today ran a featue about surrogacy. Appearing together with new mum through surrogacy Fiona, Natalie talked to Vanessa (and celebrity guest Mylene Class) about surrogacy law in the UK.The UK's leading surrogacy lawyers Find out more about how...
Today marks an important step in English fertility law, with the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 – the first major review of UK fertility law for 19 years – coming into force. Our website has been fully updated to take account of all the changes which...
Natalie has written a guide to the basics of surrogacy for other UK family lawyers. Published in The Review, it sets out what surrogacy is, how parents find surrogates and what the law says, as well as giving a couple of case study examples. Read the full article...