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Sofia Vegara and her ex-fiancé engage in legal dispute over whether their two frozen embryos should be given life. Leading fertility lawyer, Natalie Gamble, says that this situation could never arise in the UK...
Read more- The Times, 11 December 2016
Is the US in danger of making a dangerous U-turn on civil liberties that will affect British men going to the US for surrogacy? Now would be a good time for the UK to reconsider its surrogacy laws. Natalie Gamble Associates sets up petition...
Read more- Gay Star News, 21 November 2016
Hospitals make surrogate mothers hand over newborn babies in car parks. Speaking to fertility lawyer, Natalie Gamble, these situations are relatively common due to the lack of legal recognition of surrogacy in the UK…
Read more- The Independent, 29 October 2016
Michael and Jerome who conceived their son through a surrogacy arrangement in the UK, describe the legal framework as “outdated”. Natalie Gamble advises on the important factors to consider when embarking on a surrogacy journey…
Read more- The Huffington Post, 28 September 2016
Natalie explains how her passion to fight for families that are created through assisted reproduction, lead to the development of Natalie Gamble Associates, the UK’s first specialist fertility law firm...
Read more- Law Society Gazette, 26 September 2016
A mother allowed to use her late daughter’s frozen eggs to give birth to her own grandchild is granted permission to export them the US. Her solicitor, Natalie Gamble, said that she is delighted that the daughter’s wishes have finally been recognised…
Read more- BBC News, 9 September 2016
Identifying surrogacy as an area of reform, the commission asks if the law governing surrogacy is keeping pace with social change. Speaking to fertility lawyer Natalie Gamble, of Natalie Gamble Associates, the answer appears to be...
Read more- Law Society Gazette, 28 July 2016
Suzi Denton explains that consent is one of the most fundamental foundations of the UK’s fertility laws and that winning the appeal was a definite highlight of her career…
Read more- Law Society Gazette, 11 July 2016
A gay couple paid surrogate mothers they met on the internet more than £40,000 to give birth to three babies in less than six months, a court heard...
Read more- The Telegraph, 1 July 2016
A same-sex couple who made arrangements with three surrogate mothers when trying to build a family have come under fire from a High Court judge...
Read more- Daily Mail, 1 July 2016
The couple’s application to be recognised as the children’s legal parents was upheld by the judge, after they lied about how much they paid the women – who they met online in a Facebook forum...
Read more- Pink News, 1 July 2016
A bereft mother fighting to fulfil her daughter's 'dying wish' by using her frozen eggs to conceive a baby has won a landmark case which paves the way for her to give birth to her own grandchild...
Read more- Daily Mail, 30 June 2016
A 60-year-old woman who wants to use her dead daughter’s frozen eggs to give birth to a grandchild has won a legal battle over what constitutes medical consent...
Read more- The Guardian, 30 June 2016
A woman who wants to use her dead daughter's frozen eggs to give birth to her own grandchild has won a Court of Appeal battle.
Read more- The Telegraph, 30 June 2016
woman has won the right to give birth to her own grandchild using frozen eggs left behind by her dead daughter, the Court of Appeal has ruled...
Read more- The Independent, 30 June 2016
A woman who wants to use her dead daughter's frozen eggs to give birth to her own grandchild has won a Court of Appeal battle..
Read more- BBC news (2nd item on main national news), 30 June 2016
"I always find it terribly frustrating when people talk about not putting children from and centre" says leading fertility lawyer Natalie Gamble
Read more- TalkRadio, 23 May 2016
Surrogacy laws which prevent single people from claiming parental rights are set to change following a ruling by the Family Division of the High Court...
Read more- BBC News, 23 May 2016
Natalie Gamble, solicitor for the father, said "The UK has a proud tradition of taking a progressive approach to assisted reproduction and non-traditional families and this is a glaring anomaly"
Read more- The Times, 21 May 2016
A 60 year old woman in Britain wants to carry the frozen eggs of her deceased daughter who died from cancer...
Read more- CBS This Morning (US TV news), 25 March 2016
A mother's hopes that she will be allowed to have.a baby by using the frozen eggs of her dead daughter were kept alive yesterday...
Read more- The Times, 25 February 2016
If it can be proven that the deceased woman wanted the pregnancy to take place, her final wishes shouldn’t be denied by lawyers quibbling over technicalities...
Read more- The Telegraph (comment), 25 February 2016
A woman has been granted permission to appeal against a ban on her using her dead daughter's frozen eggs to give birth to a grandchild....
Read more- The Guardian, 24 February 2016
A mother has won the right to challenge a decision barring her from giving birth to her own grandchild using frozen eggs from her daughter who died of cancer...
Read more- The Telegraph, 24 February 2016
Mr and Mrs M's solicitor, Natalie Gamble, said they were delighted with Wednesday's ruling. "It means the Court of Appeal will now consider whether the HFEA and the court took too restrictive...
Read more- Buzzfeed News, 24 February 2016
A woman who wants to use her dead daughter's frozen eggs to give birth to her own grandchild has persuaded judges at the Court of Appeal...
Read more- ITV News, 4 February 2016
Gamble now runs one of the leading fertility law firms in the UK, and has spent her career helping not only lesbian mothers, but others struggling with fertility clinics, parenting orders, donor conception disputes, co-parenting agreements and the like.
Read more- The Guardian (Weekend magazine), 28 November 2015
Helen was interviewed as a surrogacy expert by the BBC, discussing what the proposed changes to surrogacy in India will mean for UK parents
Read more- BBC News World Service, 29 October 2015
A baby boy conceived as part of a commercial surrogacy arrangement between an American woman and a British man has been left trapped in legal limbo after a British court refused to recognise the man as his father because he is single.
Read more- The Telegraph, 8 September 2015
A single man's fight to be recognised as the sole parent of a surrogate baby boy that he paid to have born in America has been rejected by a leading High Court judge in a unique test case.
Read more- Daily Mail, 7 September 2015
Helen Prosser is one of the experts taking part in this national BBC One TV debate about whether UK surrogacy should be commercialised
Read more- BBC Sunday Morning Live, 26 July 2015
A mother has lost her bid to use the frozen eggs of her dead daughter so she could give birth to a grandchild...
Read more- The Guardian, 15 June 2015
A judge was told the woman's daughter who died from cancer, and can only be referred to as 'A' for legal reasons, had longed to have children...
Read more- Daily Mail, 15 June 2015
Natalie Gamble, a solicitor who specialises in fertility and family cases, represented the first family in a parental order case in 2008. One common problem, she said...
Read more- The Guardian, 19 May 2015
Natalie Gamble, 38, fertility and alternative family law solicitor, acted for a gay couple who had been tricked into an informal surrogacy arrangement
Read more- Law Society Gazette, 18 May 2015
Read The Times' full page feature about NGA and Brilliant Beginnings, with Frances Gibb interviewing Helen and Natalie about our pioneering work
Read more- The Times, 14 May 2015
Mrs M's statement added: "I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that, as far as A [the daughter] was concerned, her eggs held a life force and were living entities in limbo waiting to be born.
Read more- BBC News, 8 May 2015
A mother is launching a legal battle for possession of her dead daughter's frozen eggs so that she can become pregnant with her own grandchild
Read more- The Guardian, 8 May 2015
Natalie Gamble, one of the UK's leading fertility lawyers, said "The law urgently needs changing"...
Read more- The Independent, 7 May 2015
It's cases like this which have led experts such as the UK fertility lawyer Natalie Gamble to campaign for better legislation...
Read more- The Telegraph, 7 May 2015
Lawyers are calling for rules surrounding surrogacy to be tightened up after a woman who had a child with a gay couple then refused them access was ordered to hand over the baby.
Read more- The Guardian, 6 May 2015
A 'duplicitive and manipulative' woman who tricked a gay couple into an informal surrogacy arrangement has been ordered to hand the toddler over to them
Read more- The Telegraph, 5 May 2015
Natalie Gamble, a solicitor specialising in surrogacy law who represented the fathers, told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme...
Read more- BBC News Online, 5 May 2015
Listen to Natalie interviewed by Sarah Montague about what the case tells us about the future of UK surrogacy law
Read more- BBC Radio 4 Today Programme, 5 May 2015
Discussion with Natalie, Caroline and Nigel Griffiths and Kim Bergman about the issues for UK parents going overseas for surrogacy (starts at 9 minutes)
Read more- BBC Radio 5Live with Adrian Chiles, 22 March 2015
Impatient to be a father, Kyle Casson was just 24 when he decided to seek out a surrogate to carry his child. But being a single gay man, his options were limited....
Read more- Daily Mail (front page headline), 7 March 2015
Lawyer Natalie Gamble, whose firm was involved in the Cassons’ case, explains that surrogacy using close family members has become commonplace...
Read more- The Telegraph, 7 March 2015
Man in his 20s told he may adopt his biological son after court is told how he embarked on ‘process of becoming a father’ with assistance from his own mother
Read more- The Guardian, 4 March 2015
In the first case of its kind in the world, the woman, age 59, and her husband will claim it was their daughter's dying wish...
Read more- Mail on Sunday (front page), 22 February 2015
On the 30th anniversary of baby Cotton's birth, Kim Cotton calls for changes to the law - Natalie comments
Read more- ITV news, 25 January 2015
Sheila McClennon interviews Natalie and Kim Cotton on the 30th anniversary of the UK's first surrogacy birth, asking what has changed and what the future holds
Read more- BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour, 2 January 2015
Radio 4 feature on modern same-sex parenting in the UK, including comment from Natalie about the law
Read more- BBC Radio 4, 22 September 2014
Next April surrogate parents will get parental leave. Natalie Gamble, a lawyer working at Brilliant Beginnings, another surrogacy agency, says...
Read more- The Economist, 5 September 2014
Nicola Scott, a lawyer with UK family law firm Natalie Gamble Associates, says that about 25% of her firm's clients go to the US, often because they feel it is safer.
Read more- BBC News online, 6 August 2014
Michael Buerck hosts a debate on the ethics of surrogacy with a panel and expert witnesses including Nicola Scott
Read more- BBC Radio 4 The Moral Maze, 6 August 2014
Nicola Scott, a lawyer from Natalie Gamble Associates, which specialises in surrogacy and fertility legislation, explains: “There are certain countries, such as Thailand and India, where surrogacy is offered without the legal framework to support it.
Read more- The Telegraph, 5 August 2014
Richard Perrins, a solicitor specialising in surrogacy at Natalie Gamble Associates, said an increasing number of couples were looking for surrogate mothers overseas because of the difficulty in finding one in their own country
Read more- The Guardian, 4 August 2014
John Humphrys interviews Nicola Scott about the baby Gammy case and how international surrogacy law works for UK parents
Read more- BBC Radio 4 Today, 4 August 2014
Nicola Scott, a British lawyer specialising in fertility issues, says a lack of regulation leaves the child vulnerable because issues such as termination are not discussed in advance
Read more- BBC News online, 3 August 2014
BBC national TV news interviews Nicola Scott about surrogacy law
Read more- BBC TV news, 2 August 2014
Natalie Gamble, the Patels’ lawyer, explained that normally it can take between three and four months - almost half the six months it has taken the Patels...
Read more- The Telegraph, 15 July 2014
"British surrogacy law needs to be brought up to date" according to Helen Prosser of surrogacy agency Brilliant Beginnings...
Read more- The Independent, 4 May 2014
Jenni Murray interviews Natalie about the changes to maternity leave for surrogacy, and how else surrogacy law needs to change
Read more- BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour, 25 April 2014
Natalie Gamble, a leading fertility lawyer, said: “The law used to say that before offering treatment clinics had to consider the welfare of any child born without a father...
Read more- The Independent, 27 March 2014
Lawyer Natalie Gamble confirms there are similar cases but she believes it is a trend which is largely unique to the sub-continent. "I wouldn't say it's routine but it's not uncommon in India," she says...
Read more- BBC News online, 28 October 2013
Nicola Scott, a lawyer with Natalie Gamble Associates, a firm that specialises in fertility and parenting law, said "We have seen a lot of success stories. We advise people to...
Read more- The Sunday Times, 11 August 2013
When my son Max was born six months ago, I didn't think it was anybody else's business. But after five years of trying to become a father, I've decided to share the long, hard road to gay parenthood...
Read more- The Guardian, 3 August 2013
"I'm constantly surprised by how many variations there are on having a child" says Natalie Gamble, the first lawyer in the UK to specialise in fertility issues...
Read more- Red magazine, 5 February 2013
Sperm donors were handed the right to see and play a part in the lives of their biological children in a landmark High Court case yesterday...
Read more- Daily Mail (front page headline), 1 February 2013
Sperm donors who know the parents can apply for contact with their biological children, a court has ruled. The case, the first of its kind...
Read more- The Guardian, 31 January 2013
"Surrogacy has become much more accepted" said fertility lawyer Natalie Gamble. "People are much more aware of it and the fact that options are available internationally...
Read more- Metro, 23 January 2013
Natalie Gamble, a lawyer specialising in surrogacy cases, added: "People can go overseas and deal with commercial agencies and then come back and ask for a parental order...
Read more- The Independent, 28 November 2012
A 24-year-old male supermarket worker is preparing for a legal battle to become Britain's first single surrogate parent. Kyle Casson, from Doncaster...
Read more- Daily Mail, 8 November 2012
Jenni Murray discusses known sperm donation and what can go wrong with Natalie, sperm donor Mark Langridge and Chief Exec of the National Gamete Donation Trust Laura Witjens
Read more- BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour, 1 November 2012
A gay man who donated his sperm to enable a lesbian couple to have two children is being forced by the Child Support Agency to pay for their support – 13 years after the first child was born...
Read more- The Guardian, 26 October 2012
A gay couple has won the right to be recognised as the legal parents of twin boys after the surrogate mother they paid to carry them disappeared...
Read more- Daily Mail, 3 October 2012
A judge has warned of the pitfalls of surrogacy after a desperate couple were forced to resort to a court order to have twin babies recognised as theirs...
Read more- The Telegraph, 3 October 2012
A mother who had a child using a surrogate is taking the government to the High Court to win the right to receive maternity pay...
Read more- The Sunday Times, 23 August 2012
Sarah Wood-Heath, a solicitor at Natalie Gamble Associates, which specialises in non-traditional family law, said: “An increase in dissolutions is a natural progression...
Read more- The Independent, 31 July 2012
ITV Daybreak interviews Natalie about the campaign for maternity leave rights for UK parents through surrogacy
Read more- ITV Daybreak, 23 April 2012
"English law applies its own rules as to who the parents are, irrespective of what happens abroad," says Natalie Gamble, the country's leading fertility lawyer. "So even if you're named as the parent on a US birth certificate, English law will say...
Read more- The Guardian Weekend magazine, 21 April 2012
Jenni Murray interviews Natalie about the lack of maternity leave rights for UK parents through surrogacy
Read more- BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour, 17 April 2012
Natalie Gamble, an expert in fertility law, said that only mothers who were pregnant or those who have adopted are entitled to take maternity leave under the existing rules, which left “a gap” in cases where mothers used surrogates...
Read more- The Sunday Telegraph, 18 March 2012
There are not only medical warnings but according to leading surrogacy lawyer Natalie Gamble, legal issues too. "The first hurdle is immigration, and in many cases conflicting laws will mean that the child is born stateless," she says...
Read more- BBC News, 15 November 2011
Alice Jolly and her husband knew they could offer a loving home to one of the thousands of British children awaiting adoption. So why were they forced to go abroad instead and use a surrogate to get the child they longed for?
Read more- The Independent, 15 November 2011
Jane Garvey talks to Natalie about the state of UK surrogacy law and whether reform is needed
Read more- BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour, 3 June 2011
Natalie Gamble is one of this country’s leading fertility lawyers, specialising in surrogacy, who won a landmark legal case last year...
Read more- The Telegraph, 22 January 2011
Vanessa Feltz discusses surrogacy with Natalie, parent Fiona, surrogate Carol and guest Mylene Class
Read more- TV Channel 5, 19 January 2011
"UK surrogacy law has always been an unworkable compromise" says Natalie, writing a comment editorial for the Guardian
Read more- The Guardian, 29 December 2010
Natalie Gamble, a specialist in fertility law, said: "Their legal status in California will not be automatically recognised here, and they will need to apply to the UK high court for a parental order which legally recognises them as parents."
Read more- The Guardian, 28 December 2010
In a rare legal case, a senior family court judge allowed the couple to keep their newborn child, even though they had payed more than the “reasonable expenses” permitted under English law to the birth mother in Illinois.
Read more- Daily Telegraph, 11 December 2010
A couple who illegally paid a surrogate to have their baby will keep the child after a landmark court ruling. In a case which may open the floodgates to foreign surrogacies, the Britons paid an American an unspecified sum to carry their child...
Read more- Daily Mail, 9 December 2010
A senior family court judge allowed a British couple to keep a newborn child even though they had technically broken the law by giving more than “reasonable expenses”. His comments, among the first in recent years on the subject by a senior legal figure..
Read more- Daily Telegraph (front page headline), 9 December 2010
No.88 Natalie Gamble - Established her own family through donor conception and became a pioneer in fertility law. Heavily involved in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 and was nominated in 2008 as Stonewall's Hero of the Year...
Read more- Independent on Sunday, 1 August 2010
Natalie Gamble, a lawyer who acted for the parents in both those cases, said: "If you don't get a parental order the English couple aren't seen as the child's legal parents...
Read more- The Guardian, 5 April 2010
"These changes bring the law up to date with the realities of modern 21st-century life and recognise that increasing numbers of same-sex and unmarried couples are having children together," said Natalie Gamble...
Read more- The Observer, 28 March 2010
As leading fertility law specialist Natalie Gamble says: 'The recent changing of the wording is designed to be welcoming to different family forms. Single women are now in no worse a position...
Read more- Daily Mail, 31 October 2009
Natalie Gamble said surrogacy is still regarded as an "exotic rarity", which means statutory maternity leave does not apply. Ms Gamble said: "The lack of right to maternity leave is tied up with the fact the surrogate mother is...
Read more- Evening Standard, 27 October 2009
A couple spoke of their joy and renewed desire to have children last night after ministers allowed them to keep frozen embryos that otherwise would have been destroyed...
Read more- The Times, 10 September 2009
Natalie Gamble, a solicitor specialising in fertility issues and representing the Gladwins, said: "While the announcement gives much needed hope to men and women whose precious embryos have already reached the end of their five year storage term...
Read more- Daily Telegraph, 9 September 2009
Melanie Gladwin, 28, had her embryos frozen in 2003 after she was diagnosed with cervical cancer and, unable to have children herself, expected to use them in the future to have children through surrogacy. However an "oversight"...
Read more- Daily Telegraph, 7 August 2009
Dozens of women will be denied the chance to have children unless a mother wins her legal fight to halt the destruction of frozen embryos...
Read more- Daily Mail, 6 July 2009
A mother who faces losing 11 frozen embryos is leading a campaign on behalf of dozens of women to change rules that would prevent them having more children...
Read more- Sunday Times, 5 July 2009
Jenni Murray talks to Natalie Gamble and Kim Palmer from Surrogacy UK about surrogacy and the lack of maternity rights for parents
Read more- BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour, 28 May 2009
Natalie Gamble, a fertility law specialist, warned that hundreds of parents who use women in India to have a child are facing a legal timebomb. Many are failing to register as their baby's legal parents so effectively have no rights...
Read more- Evening Standard, 28 May 2009
Jon Manel investigates whether UK surrogacy law is keeping pace with the increasing numbers of British couples having children through surrogacy, and interviews Natalie and the parents from the first international surrogacy case from the Ukraine
Read more- BBC Radio 4, 27 January 2009
Yesterday, after a year of legal wrangling, the British couple won custody of the twins when a judge sanctioned their £23,000 payment to the surrogate, the highest such payment ever authorised by the British courts. The parents' solicitor Natalie Gamble..
Read more- Daily Mail, 12 December 2008
A High Court judge called yesterday for a review of Britain’s surrogacy laws after making a ruling that rescued baby twins from a legal limbo, which had left them “marooned, stateless and parentless” in Ukraine...
Read more- The Times, 12 December 2008
Hero of the Year nominees include Natalie Gamble – prominent in the campaign to secure equal legal recognition for same-sex families and an end to discrimination against lesbians in fertility treatment; spoke publicly of her own positive experience...
Read more- Pinknews, 6 October 2008
Evan Harris MP said in Parliament: "Natalie Gamble, a fertility lawyer dealing with discrimination cases, has stated: ‘to say that no lesbian couples are denied treatment as a result of the need for a father provision is simply untrue...
Read more- Pinknews, 21 May 2008
The bill currently being debated in parliament replaces the requirement that fertility clinics consider a child's "need for a father" with the phrase "supportive parenting". "The difference is crucial," fertility law expert Natalie Gamble told...
Read more- The Guardian, 20 May 2008
None of this would have been possible, says fertility law expert Natalie Gamble, had the women been given equal access to safe and licensed treatment where all involved have a clear legal status and the children have guaranteed rights...
Read more- The Guardian, 13 May 2008
Evan Davies discusses with Natalie the proposed Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill changes for lesbian and single parents
Read more- BBC Radio 4 Today Programme, 12 May 2008
The difference between these two phrases is crucial,' said fertility law expert Natalie Gamble. 'The words "supportive parenting" do not discriminate against single and lesbian women, but "the need for a father" clearly does...
Read more- The Guardian, 11 May 2008
Natalie Gamble advised Andy Bathie, who agreed, in a private arrangement, to donate sperm to a lesbian couple to have two children. He was pursued later by the Child Support Agency...
Read more- The Times, 15 January 2008
Lawyer Natalie Gamble, an expert on fertility regulations, said: "Equality rules mean clinics have to give treatment to single women and same sex couples anyway...
Read more- Evening Standard, 11 January 2008
She has advised Andy Bathie, the sperm donor who helped a lesbian couple have two children and is being pursued by the Child Support Agency (CSA) for maintenance...
Read more- Law Society Gazette, 13 December 2007
A lesbian claiming child support from her firefighter friend has rejected his claim that he is being unfairly treated. Andy Bathie said yesterday that he was being made to support their son and daughter, in a case believed to be the first of its kind...
Read more- The Guardian, 4 December 2007
A sperm donor who helped a lesbian couple have two children is now being forced to pay thousands of pounds for their upbringing, he said...
Read more- Daily Telegraph, 3 December 2007
John Humphrys fields a discussion between Natalie Gamble and Baroness Deech on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill and rights for lesbian parents
Read more- BBC Radio 4 Today Programme, 19 November 2007
The new reform of fertility laws allowing father-free parenting has placed Natalie Gamble and her children at the heart of a bitter national debate
Read more- Evening Standard, 13 November 2007
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