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24
Sep
2025

Blog, Louisa Ghevaert, Modern family law, News, Posthumous conception law, Surrogacy law

British Fertility Society’s Creating Modern Families Day 2025

The British Fertility Society Creating Modern Families Day took place on 23 September 2025 in London as part of BFS Study Week. It delivered an excellent multi-disciplinary training programme that was well attended by fertility clinicians, embryologists, nurses, counsellors and other fertility professionals. Louisa Ghevaert was delighted to be invited back as a speaker to give a surrogacy law update and take part in a lively question and answer panel addressing complex fertility and family law issues in practice.

10
Sep
2025

Blog, Donor conception law, fertility law, Posthumous conception law

Stand Up To Cancer Day 2025 And The Impact On Male Fertility

Stand Up To Cancer Day takes place on 12 September 2025 with the aim of raising awareness about the impact of cancer, its available treatments, and the importance of funding cancer research. This national day was launched in the UK in 2012, following the success of the US Stand Up To Cancer charity formed in 2007, and it provides a platform for real life cancer stories and fundraising for research and clinical trials. As such, 12 September provides an important opportunity to highlight the various ways cancer can affect so many of our lives: 1 in every 2 people. This includes testicular and prostate cancer and its symptoms and relevant treatment. It also includes the consequent impact on individual fertility and the importance of effective strategies for fertility preservation and family building including sperm banking, donor conception, adoption and posthumous conception.

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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