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07
Mar
2025

Blog, fertility law, Louisa Ghevaert, News

Lessons To Be Learned By The Fertility Sector From the Infected Blood Scandal & Inquiry

Louisa Ghevaert was pleased to attend a Progress Educational Trust Event on 26 February 2025 "What Can The Fertility Sector Learn From The Infected Blood Scandal And Inquiry?". The Contaminated Blood Scandal was one of the worst health scandals in the UK from the 1970s - 1990s, resulting in thousands of deaths from infected blood transfusions and blood products. This event looked at the similarities between fertility (eggs, sperm and embryos) and blood, the findings of the Infected Blood Inquiry in the UK and the lessons to be learned across the fertility sector to ensure optimum patient safety and care. Given rapid advances in reproductive medicine and growing demand fro fertility treatment, it is more important than ever to maximise reproductive choice, optimise care and protections and make informed decisions about pathways to parenthood.

25
Feb
2025

Blog, Donor conception law, fertility law, Modern family law

Declaration of Parentage: Resolving Birth Registration, Parental Status & Identity

We are currently seeing heightened levels of uncertainty and change around the world, ranging from economic challenges to seismic shifts in geopolitics and rapid developments in artificial intelligence, on-demand digital technology, genetics and DNA testing, precision healthcare and assisted reproduction. These can impact all stages of the life cycle from pre-conception through pregnancy, birth, family life and end-of-life care. This evolving landscape can create complex issues about family formation, personal identity, birth registration, legal and biological parenthood, genetic and health issues and relationships with family and relatives. In turn, this can require effective legal strategies to address issues about personal identity, genetic testing, legal and biological parentage, birth registration and family dynamics.

23
Jan
2025

Blog, fertility law, Louisa Ghevaert, Posthumous conception law

Posthumous Conception In Focus

The law governing posthumous conception in England and Wales sets out clear legal requirements designed to protect an individual's right to consent to the use of their eggs, sperm or embryos in treatment after their death. Eggs, sperm and embryos represent a special class of reproductive cells. They are very private and intimate, representing unique reproductive building blocks in human conception and an individual's genetic legacy. As such, the law is designed to prevent the unauthorised use of a person's gametes (or embryos comprising these) in treatment without their specific consent in life and after death. However, the prescriptive legal framework governing posthumous conception is not without its challenges in real life. What can be done to overcome these challenges?

30
Sep
2024

Blog, Donor conception law, fertility law, Louisa Ghevaert, Posthumous conception law

Posthumous Conception & Surrogacy: The Importance of Consent

The case of Re G v Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority & Anor [2024] EWHC 2453 (Fam) raises important legal and factual issues about posthumous conception that have not previously been considered by the English Court. This case, in which Louisa Ghevaert Associates was instructed by the applicant mother, concerned the storage and use of a young woman's eggs, who tragically died in June 2023 within six months of receiving a breast cancer diagnosis. The mother sought permission to use her deceased daughter's 20 frozen eggs to have a baby through surrogacy.

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