20 Sep, 2016
Planning for death when you’re making life – why you should make a will if you’re conceiving through assisted reproduction
The ugly fallout which results from the lack of a Will was made public earlier this year following the dispute between Prince’s surviving siblings after it was discovered that he
16 Sep, 2016
Continuing problems with legal parentage for couples having donor sperm treatment at UK fertility clinics
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
01 Jul, 2016
High Court rules baby should stay with surrogate after ‘Facebook’ surrogacy arrangement ends in bitter dispute
High Court judge Ms Justice Russell has ruled that a baby boy should remain living with the gestational surrogate who carried him, after a UK surrogacy arrangement went badly wrong.
30 Jun, 2016
Court of Appeal grants our appeal in Re M posthumous conception case
We are delighted to report that the Court of Appeal has granted our appeal in the case of Re M today. The case involves a young woman (A) who died of
20 May, 2016
UK’s top family judge declares that UK law should give single parents through surrogacy the same rights as couples
Sir James Munby, the President of the High Court Family Division, has made a formal declaration that UK law discriminates against single parents with children born through surrogacy and is
24 Feb, 2016
Court of Appeal gives permission to appeal in the Re M posthumous conception case
We welcome the news that the Court of Appeal has today given our clients, Mr and Mrs M, permission to bring an appeal in the case of IM v HFEA (Re
22 Jan, 2016
High Court gives guidance for international surrogacy cases, after newborn surrogate twins are left stranded for a year in India
In yet another decision to highlight the deficiencies of UK surrogacy law, the High Court has criticised the handling of an international surrogacy case in which twins born to British
17 Dec, 2015
High court rules in favour of lesbian parents, refusing sperm donor’s application for contact
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
02 Nov, 2015
An end to surrogacy in India for UK couples?
Surrogacy has hit the headlines again, with India apparently in the process of prohibiting foreign couples engaging in surrogacy there. With hundreds of UK parents travelling to India for surrogacy each year,
29 Oct, 2015
Mitochondrial Donation becomes licensable in the UK from today
On 3 February 2015, the House of Commons voted to approve the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Mitochondrial Donation) Regulations 2015, and made the UK the first country in the world
