BBC Radio 5 Live

BBC Radio 5 Live interview with Louisa Ghevaert on harvesting dead men’s sperm for posthumous conception in the UK (21 January 2020)

Preimplantation Embryo Gene Editing: Is This A Step Forward?

28-11-2025

National Fertility Awareness Week 2025

31-10-2025

National Adoption Week 2025

16-10-2025

Baby Loss Awareness Week 2025

13-10-2025

Breast Cancer and BRCA Genes: The Impact on Fertility

01-10-2025

British Fertility Society’s Creating Modern Families Day 2025

24-09-2025

World Contraception Day & Reproductive Choice

15-09-2025

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

10-09-2025

‘So Little Consensus and So Little Trust’; Gender Dysphoria, Cross-Sex Hormones and Finding the Balance Between A Child’s Wishes and Best Interests

09-09-2025

UK Surrogacy: The Issue of Consent Following a Surrogate’s Traumatic Brain Injury Giving Birth

05-09-2025

Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month 2025: The Impact on Fertility

01-09-2025

Declaration of Parentage: When Might This Be Relevant?

29-08-2025

National Rainbow Baby Day 2025

13-08-2025

The Risks of Unregulated Sperm Donation: Serial Sperm Donor Joe Donor

12-08-2025

F v J & Others [2024] and the Pitfalls of Mismatched Expectations, Rushed Known Sperm Donation and Co-Parenting Arrangements

06-08-2025

National Surrogacy Week 2025

05-08-2025

World Breastfeeding Week 2025

04-08-2025

A Cautionary Tale About Informal Sperm Donation: P v Q & F (Child: Legal Parentage) [2024]

25-07-2025

Louisa Ghevaert: 25 Years In Law

09-07-2025

Women In Change Awards 2025

09-07-2025

Modern Families Forum 2025

23-06-2025

DNA Testing Firm 23andMe Avoids Bankruptcy With $256m Sale: What Happens To My Genetic Data?

23-05-2025

Growing Families UK & EU Surrogacy & Donor Conception Conference 2025

20-05-2025

Spain Cracks Down on International Surrogacy

02-05-2025

International Surrogacy Law Update 2025

09-04-2025

WEALTH: Women In Health

04-04-2025

Is Fertility Treatment A Solution To Population Decline?

02-04-2025

Genetic Testing Firm 23andMe Files For Bankruptcy: What Does This Mean For Me?

31-03-2025

Ethica Fertility Launch Event

21-03-2025

Epigenetics In Human Reproduction

12-03-2025

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

07-03-2025

Can Genetics Impact Fertility?

03-03-2025

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

25-02-2025

Judicial Warning & Naming 0f Serial Sperm Donor ‘Who Fathered 180 Children’

20-02-2025

Genetic Testing: A Non-Biological Father, Mistaken Birth Registration & Parental Responsibility Void Ab Initio

11-02-2025

Genetic Testing, Political Uncertainty & Citizenship: Family Law In Focus

27-01-2025

Posthumous Conception In Focus

23-01-2025

Secret Sperm Donation & The Early Years of UK IVF

23-12-2024

The Future of Womb Transplants

25-11-2024

Newborn Genome Sequencing At Birth: The Generation Study Progress Update

04-11-2024

BBC News: DNA Testing and the Law, ‘I could have lost my child’ after flawed DNA test

29-10-2024

Posthumous Conception & Surrogacy: The Importance of Consent

30-09-2024

British Fertility Society’s Creating Modern Families Day 2024

20-09-2024

The Mail On Sunday: More Single Men and Men Over 50 and 60 Are Applying For Children Through Surrogacy

15-09-2024

The Surrogacy Network: A Journey To Parenthood

13-09-2024

BioNews’ 25th Birthday Celebration

05-09-2024

Donor Conception Law: Calls for Global Limits For Egg And Sperm Donors

02-09-2024

Rise in DNA tests being used to claim citizenship of other countries

19-08-2024

Netflix’s The Man With 1,000 Kids: Part One

28-07-2024

Can Air Pollution Affect My Fertility?

12-07-2024

Resolution’s Modern Families Forum 2024

21-06-2024

Fertility Show 2024 London Olympia

24-05-2024

Gender Dysphoria, Puberty Blockers and Hormone Replacement Therapy: Treatment of A Young Person

17-05-2024

Declaration of Parentage: Will This Rectify My Birth Certificate?

13-05-2024

Mary Warnock at 100: The Architect of Embryo Law

20-04-2024

FemTech Lab Spring 2024 Connect

25-03-2024

Welfare of the Fertility Patient: Spotting and Treating Trauma

22-03-2024

Fertility Treatment & Surrogacy In The Workplace

01-03-2024

Surrogacy: What Do Midwives Need To Know?

13-02-2024

IVF Add-Ons: How Should We Score the HFEA’s New Ratings System?

08-02-2024

Declining Global Fertility Rates: A Growing Problem

13-01-2024

Posthumous Conception Law: Should I Consider This?

04-01-2024

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

29-12-2023

Fertility Law Reform In The UK: How Much Change Do We Want?

14-12-2023

UK Surrogacy Law Reform On Hold

13-12-2023

Podcast: The Surrogate

22-11-2023

Public Policy Projects Global Genomics Conference 2023

10-11-2023

Male Infertility And Reproductive Health: A Growing Problem?

19-10-2023

Fertility Treatment Landscape For Those Living With HIV

04-10-2023

Genomics England Research Summit 2023

20-09-2023

BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour Interview: Posthumous Conception

24-08-2023

British Fertility Society’s Modern Families Day 2023

22-08-2023

International Surrogacy Law & Assisted Conception Update

17-08-2023

Can Microplastics Affect My Fertility?

28-07-2023

Declaration of Parentage: When Might I Need One?

13-07-2023

Donor Conception Network’s 30th Anniversary

26-06-2023

Decoding The Future of Women 2023

13-06-2023

2nd International Surrogacy Forum, Copenhagen, June 2023

11-06-2023

Fertility Show Olympia London 2023

21-05-2023

Sperm Donor Fraud: One Year On from Netflix’s Documentary “Our Father”

14-05-2023

One Year On Since Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization [2022]

09-05-2023

American Academy of Adoption & Assisted Reproduction Attorneys 2023 Annual Conference

08-05-2023

The Surrogacy Network: UK Surrogacy Law Reform 2023

21-04-2023

Building Families Through Surrogacy: Law Reform

30-03-2023

The Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing

16-03-2023

Declaration of Parentage Applications: The Significance of Legal and Biological Parenthood

14-03-2023

UK Adoption Order granted to a single non-biological mother for a child born through a Californian surrogacy arrangement

03-03-2023

A Conversation with Eloise Edington Founder of The Ribbon Box

09-02-2023

A Conversation with Fertility Coach Sarah Banks

02-02-2023

Assisted Conception & Family Building in 2023

27-01-2023

Making Fertility Treatment Fair: Equality in Access, Equality in Outcome

16-12-2022

Developments in International Surrogacy Law and Practice

05-12-2022

Latest UK Trends in Egg, Sperm and Embryo Donation

30-11-2022

Global Decline in Sperm Counts: Do I Need To Be Concerned?

18-11-2022

A Conversation with Professor Sir Rory Collins Chief Executive of UK Biobank

27-10-2022

HFEA ‘State of the Fertility Sector 2021-22’ report

20-10-2022

Perspectives on Illumina’s Genomics Forum 2022

06-10-2022

Illumina Genomics Forum 2022: Spotlight Speaker Bill Gates

05-10-2022

Illumina Genomics Forum 2022: A Conversation with Former US President Barack Obama

04-10-2022

Illumina’s Inaugural Genomics Forum 2022

03-10-2022

Cord blood banking: life-saving potential that’s usually discarded at birth

21-09-2022

Is it important to protect my fertility and genetic legacy?

13-09-2022

Changing Face of Family Life and Fertility in England and Wales in 2022

10-08-2022

Later-life parenthood: what do I need to consider?

05-08-2022

Understanding of Fertility, Genomics and Embryo Research in the UK in 2022

03-08-2022

Women’s Health Strategy for England Marks a Step Forward

22-07-2022

Declaration of parentage: the importance of identity, status and birth certificates

19-07-2022

Conceiving with Donor Sperm: What Could Go Wrong?

19-07-2022

Trends in fertility treatment in 2022

11-07-2022

US Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade: what does this mean for reproductive rights and freedoms?

28-06-2022

Progress Educational Trust’s 30th Birthday Party

24-06-2022

Egg, sperm and embryo freezing: what could go wrong?

20-06-2022

DNA testing, parentage disputes and the law

15-06-2022

Declaration of parentage: confirming family ancestry and biological parentage following adoption

08-06-2022

Sperm Donor Dispute: Parental Responsibility, Child Arrangements Orders and Fragile X Syndrome

07-06-2022

The future of IVF and surrogacy in the US if Roe v Wade is overturned

31-05-2022

Fertility Law Reform in the UK: What Needs to Change?

27-05-2022

Changes to Egg and Sperm Donor Anonymity Law in the UK

24-05-2022

Expert Witness Fertility Law: Claims for IVF, Donor Conception and Surrogacy

18-05-2022

Netflix’s “Our Father”: DNA testing, paternity disputes and questions about biological and legal parentage

16-05-2022

Egg Donation Law, Policy and Practice

11-05-2022

Undergoing Fertility Treatment in the Workplace and Fertility Law Reform

29-04-2022

Surrogacy Law Update: British Fertility Society’s Creating Modern Families Day 2022

08-04-2022

Trends in Surrogacy Law and Family Building in 2022 in England and Wales

31-03-2022

International surrogacy law: legal parentage, citizenship, time limits and parental orders

03-02-2022

Egg and Sperm Donation: Identity Issues, Anonymity, Disputes and the Law

17-01-2022

Fertility Law, Family Building and Modern Family Relationships in 2022

12-01-2022

Declaration of Parentage: resolving family ancestry, questions about parentage and birth certificates

30-11-2021

The Mail On Sunday: Surrogacy and Later-Life Parenthood in the UK

08-11-2021

The Future of The Family Justice System: Remote Court Hearings

29-10-2021

BBC World Service Interview: The economics of older mums

13-10-2021

Creating Happy Families

08-10-2021

Plans to extend legal storage limits for eggs, sperm and embryos

17-09-2021

The International Family Law Practice Sixth Edition

02-09-2021

Donor sperm DNA ancestry information available at California Cryobank

20-08-2021

Future trends: egg and sperm banks

12-08-2021

Fertility treatment and IVF in the workplace

05-08-2021

Human genome editing in a fertility context: The World Health Organization’s framework for governance of human genome editing

29-07-2021

IVF rights in France to be extended to single women and lesbian couples

01-07-2021

UK fertility treatment trends over the last 30 years

16-06-2021

Keep Up to Date with Fertility & Family Law at Louisa Ghevaert Associates

03-06-2021

Surrogacy in the UK and internationally during the Covid-19 pandemic

28-05-2021

Why we need genomic and fertility law reform part V

22-05-2021

Surrogacy Law Update: British Fertility Society’s Creating Modern Families Day 2021

14-04-2021

When infertility strikes and fertility treatment fails: what’s next?

01-04-2021

Surrogacy under strain

26-03-2021

Times Radio Interview: Single Parent Surrogacy and Surrogacy Law Reform

29-01-2021

Life, family and fertility in 2021

11-01-2021

Podcast: The Intricacies of Fertility Preservation

17-12-2020

Fertility, Genomics and Covid-19

14-12-2020

The future of female fertility: are biological constraints inevitable?

30-11-2020

The fragility of human fertility and male reproduction

26-11-2020

Legal parentage disputes: modern families and the law

18-11-2020

Fertility treatment delivery during the continued Covid-19 pandemic

09-11-2020

The UK’s New National Genomic Healthcare Strategy, Genome UK

20-10-2020

Latest trends in family formations through UK fertility treatment

05-10-2020

Egg Freezing and UK Law Reform

02-10-2020

Human Genome Editing: World Health Organization and Global Governance

22-09-2020

Human gene editing: from evolution to revolution? Why we need fertility and wider law reform part IV

10-09-2020

Ovarian rejuvenation: another option for a successful pregnancy?

24-08-2020

The global legal identity gap

21-08-2020

Saving and storing your baby’s cord blood and tissue: is this a growing trend?

18-08-2020

International surrogacy law reform: is this achievable?

14-08-2020

Legal aspects of known donor arrangements

12-08-2020

The IVF postcode lottery and law reform

10-08-2020

Later life parenthood: a fertility and family law perspective

31-07-2020

Direct to consumer genetic testing: a family and fertility law perspective

28-07-2020

Why we need fertility and wider law reform part III

17-07-2020

The importance of legal parentage

13-07-2020

UK fertility treatment trends: what’s next?

08-07-2020

Should I freeze my eggs or embryos?

01-07-2020

Should I invest in specialist fertility and family law advice?

23-06-2020

Coronavirus Regulations for the Storage of Gametes and Embryos

17-06-2020

Life and family in the Covid-19 era

01-06-2020

The impact of Covid-19 on family building and life

23-05-2020

Coronavirus and law and policy: a family and fertility perspective

03-05-2020

UK fertility clinics to resume treatment services

01-05-2020

UK storage limit for frozen eggs, sperm and embryos extended due to Covid-19 pandemic

27-04-2020

A legal watershed: UK Supreme Court awards commercial surrogacy damages

16-04-2020

Surrogacy during the Covid-19 pandemic

06-04-2020

Fertility Treatment during the Covid-19 pandemic

03-04-2020

The UK Supreme Court awards damages for commercial surrogacy

01-04-2020

The British Fertility Society’s Modern Families Day 2020

30-03-2020

Apple Podcast: Fertility law for modern families with Louisa Ghevaert

26-02-2020

Government review of storage law for eggs, sperm and embryos

13-02-2020

Egg Donation in the UK, Belgium and Spain

12-02-2020

Fertility and Family Law, Policy and Practice in 2020

10-02-2020

Consumer law guidelines for the IVF sector

09-02-2020

BBC Radio 5 Live Interview: proposals to lift advertising restrictions on surrogacy in the UK

30-01-2020

BBC Radio 5 Live Interview: harvesting dead men’s sperm for posthumous conception

25-01-2020

Why we need fertility and wider law reform part II

15-01-2020

A Realistic Look at Assisted Reproduction

05-12-2019

Why we need fertility law reform: the paradigm shift

25-11-2019

Perspectives on Fertility Forum 2019

05-11-2019

Fertility Forum 2019

22-10-2019

Law Commission: reforming surrogacy law

15-08-2019

Perspectives on surrogacy law reform

25-07-2019

Emily Hartridge: Life you literally can’t plan for it

17-07-2019

Fertility preservation: extending the 10-year storage limit

22-06-2019

Global Genetic Policy Responsibilities and Assisted Reproduction

10-06-2019

Power, Wealth, Baby-Making and Genetic Policy Responsibilities

02-06-2019

British Fertility Society’s Creating Modern Families Day 2019

28-05-2019

Perspectives on Fertility Fest 2019: “Life Rewired”

09-05-2019

A new genetic test can screen embryos for low intelligence: is this a good or a bad thing?

06-05-2019

Launch of the Sperm, Egg & Embryo Donation Trust (SEED)

02-05-2019

Should I undergo genetic testing before having a family?

30-04-2019

Welcome to Louisa Ghevaert Associates

12-04-2019

The future of fertility policy in the context of the genomics revolution

12-04-2019

Fertility and Family Law Trends

16-01-2019

Fertility preservation: Rachael Bland’s story

11-09-2018

Posthumous conception: a ray of hope for the future

16-08-2018

Surrogacy, relationship breakdown and modern families

05-07-2018

Louisa Ghevaert features in The Lawyer Hot 100 List 2018

28-02-2018

Louisa Ghevaert Honoured in The Lawyer Hot 100 List 2018

30-01-2018

Trends in Fertility and Family Law

19-01-2018

Fertility and Family Law in Action

21-01-2016

BBC Radio London Interview: Solo Father Through Surrogacy Awarded Adoption Order

09-03-2015

BBC World Service Interview: Banning Commercial Surrogacy in Thailand

24-02-2015

Louisa Ghevaert recognised as leading expert in UK fertility and parenting law

03-11-2014

International Surrogacy Law: Time Limit for parental order

03-10-2014

Fertility and family law in progress

04-12-2013

Louisa Ghevaert Shortlisted by Family Law Awards 2013

24-07-2013

Maternity leave granted in surrogacy cases

21-12-2012

Elizabeth Banks welcomes second surrogate son

16-11-2012

Three reasons why surrogacy can go wrong

12-10-2012

Mother in surrogacy case fights legal battle for maternity rights

26-09-2012

Fertility and Parenting law team shortlisted for The Law Society’s 2012 Excellence Award in Innovation

11-09-2012

The legacy of Jill Hawkins, the UK’s most prolific surrogate mother

07-09-2012

Ukrainian surrogacy law dispute: TV coverage places Ukrainian surrogacy under the spotlight

10-08-2012

Indian surrogacy: draft law finalised to bring in regulation

17-07-2012

Surrogacy ban to hit Queensland: a worrying step backwards

06-07-2012

Louise Brown, the world’s first IVF baby, talks about surrogacy and assisted conception

29-06-2012

The intersection of fertility and family law

12-06-2012

International surrogacy in India: an unregulated market

29-05-2012

NICE issues new IVF and fertility guidance

22-05-2012

Surrogacy and the celebrity factor

01-05-2012

Surrogacy and donor conception: the question of parenthood

18-04-2012

The impact of infertility

12-04-2012

The Modern Family (A Resolution Guide) features a chapter on assisted reproduction and surrogacy

30-03-2012

Surrogacy: what motivates its practice?

27-03-2012

International surrogacy guidelines in Ireland: improvement or just a headline?

16-03-2012

Indian surrogate born twins granted French civil status

09-03-2012

UK surrogate pregnant for a ninth time with twins

29-02-2012

Surrogacy: crossing the legal divide

23-02-2012

International surrogacy: same-sex parenting, domicile and immigration

08-02-2012

US hospital chain seeks to recoup money following illegal surrogacy ring

01-02-2012

Surrogacy: is it on the increase?

25-01-2012

Further celebrity endorsement fuels demand for international surrogacy

04-01-2012

Couple win IVF postcode lottery battle against PCT

20-12-2011

Fertility treatment is on the rise in the UK

17-12-2011

International Surrogacy: British couple allowed to keep children born to two Indian surrogate mothers

07-12-2011

International surrogacy law: Bulgaria moves to legalize surrogacy

29-11-2011

Fertility treatment, IVF, PGD and the creation of healthy embryos

25-11-2011

Louisa Ghevaert lectures on international surrogacy at The Fertility Show 2011

21-11-2011

American Bar Association hosts international fertility and surrogacy law congress

17-11-2011

Surrogacy should not be equated to adoption: a headache for law and policy makers?

15-11-2011

International surrogacy article featuring Louisa Ghevaert published in fertility magazine Fertility Road

14-11-2011

Pink Parenting magazine features article on international surrogacy: navigating the legal pitfalls

04-10-2011

Fertility treatment and parenting: a quantum shift?

22-09-2011

Fertility, infertility and parenting: is fertility preservation for women the way forward?

21-09-2011

UK Donor Link wins temporary reprieve

21-09-2011

Fertility law, donor conception and surrogacy: Reproductive Medicine 2011

15-09-2011

UK Donor Link threatened with closure

26-08-2011

International surrogacy and fertility law: is greater regulation needed?

24-08-2011

Surrogacy in focus: the perils and the pitfalls

11-08-2011

International Surrogacy: Australian couple could face criminal charges following surrogacy in Thailand

29-07-2011

High Court Judge grants surrogacy parental order in favour of a deceased parent

11-07-2011

Pink Parenting Magazine features parenting law expert Louisa Ghevaert on the legalities of surrogacy, adoption and fostering

11-07-2011

BioNews Article: IVF, donor conception and surrogacy: Is progressive global regulation possible?

06-07-2011

IVF postcode lottery: Louisa Ghevaert joins BBC Radio Somerset debate on IVF funding

01-07-2011

International Surrogacy: Ukrainian legal changes afoot?

23-06-2011

International surrogacy “hot-spots”: USA, Ukraine and India

17-06-2011

International surrogacy: should there be global regulation?

14-06-2011

IVF doctor knighted

12-06-2011

Donor conception law and policy

06-06-2011

Infertility, fertility law and treatment: how big a problem is it in the UK?

27-05-2011

Fertility Law: multiple IVF birth numbers continue to fall in the UK

24-05-2011

High Court Judge gives interview on international commercial surrogacy

20-05-2011

International Surrogacy: beware of the legal difficulties warns High Court Judge

18-05-2011

International surrogacy: payments, policy and the media

11-05-2011

Welcome to Louisa Ghevaert’s website

07-01-2010