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13
Feb
2024

Blog, Louisa Ghevaert, Modern family law, Surrogacy law

Surrogacy: What Do Midwives Need To Know?

Louisa Ghevaert is delighted to join a panel of speakers on a webinar hosted by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) on 22 February 2024 entitled "Surrogacy: What Do Midwives Need To Know?". Louisa's session will help ensure midwives are aware of the current legal framework around surrogacy in the UK, and proposed legal changes, to enable them to provide appropriate care and support. The webinar will also provide extensive lived experiences of surrogates and intended parents within maternity services with sessions from Sarah Jones from Surrogacy UK and Michael and Wes Johnson-Ellis from My Surrogacy Journey.

29
Dec
2023

Blog, Louisa Ghevaert, Modern family law

Declaration Of Parentage: Will This Resolve My Personal Identity, Legal And Biological Parenthood?

Questions about personal identity, legal and biological parenthood and birth certificates can arise in different ways and create all sorts of complex issues. In some cases, they can come about because of personal searches and histories involving absent parents, adoption and donor conception. For others, unexpected discoveries and issues can arise following a direct-to-consumer DNA test, death of a relative, conversation with a family member, an encounter with a genetic relative or an application for a new birth certificate or passport. This can in turn necessitate a court application for a Declaration of Parentage.

22
Aug
2023

Blog, Louisa Ghevaert, Modern family law

British Fertility Society’s Modern Families Day 2023

Louisa Ghevaert is delighted to deliver a surrogacy law update as part of the British Fertility Society's Modern Families Day on 12 September 2023, forming part of the BFS's annual study week. Louisa will once again join an expert panel of speakers addressing clinical and legal issues, law reform and wider aspects associated with creating modern families through fertility treatment, egg and sperm donation and surrogacy.

28
Jul
2023

Blog, fertility law, Modern family law

Can Microplastics Affect My Fertility?

There are increasing concerns that chemicals in microplastics can disrupt hormone function associated with reproduction and immunity. Scientific research has found that human samples show that nearly everyone has endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), which are used to make plastics, in their bodies. It has been reported that some EDCs can simulate the actions of estrogens and androgens which are key hormones for female and male reproduction and disrupt the body's process for making eggs and sperm.

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