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26
Feb
2020

Apple Podcast: Fertility law for modern families with Louisa Ghevaert

Expert fertility and family lawyer Louisa Ghevaert is delighted to collaborate with well-known and experienced osteopath, doula and zero-balancer Avni Trivedi, founder of Avni Touch, to produce a podcast for Speak From The Body entitled "Fertility law for modern families". In this latest podcast, Avni explores with Louisa the role of a fertility lawyer in a fertility team and journey, current and future trends within the rapidly evolving landscape of the fertility sector and the value of expert fertility and family law advice.

13
Feb
2020

Government review of storage law for eggs, sperm and embryos

The announcement on 11 February 2020 that the government is launching a review of storage laws in the UK for eggs, sperm and embryos is welcome news. It is long overdue and much needed to improve women’s and men’s reproductive choice and rights and end discrimination.

12
Feb
2020

Egg Donation in the UK, Belgium and Spain

Louisa Ghevaert was delighted to attend the expert stakeholder meeting led by De Montfort University, Leicester, on egg donation in the UK, Belgium and Spain ('EDNA') on 11 February 2020. This study explores the social, political, economic and moral issues, implications and outcomes associated with egg donation in the UK, Belgium and Spain to help improve understanding and help shape future egg donation policy and practice.

10
Feb
2020

Fertility and Family Law, Policy and Practice in 2020

As we start the new decade, 2020, it provides an opportunity to reflect on the rapidly evolving fertility sector and the implications of this for fertility patients and families. Individual fertility and family building are key components in the stability and future success of our society and law, policy and practice needs to take greater account of our growing reliance on assisted and donor conception.

09
Feb
2020

Consumer law guidelines for the IVF sector

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced on 7 February 2020 that it is investigating concerns about possible mis-selling of IVF 'add-on' treatments and misrepresentation of fertility treatment clinic success rates in the UK. The CMA also announced that it intends to produce written guidance (currently lacking in the UK) on consumer protection law for the IVF sector.

30
Jan
2020

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

During a BBC Radio 5 Live interview with Sarah Brett on 29 January 2020, Louisa Ghevaert was pleased to debate proposals to lift UK advertising restrictions on surrogacy and wider surrogacy law reform currently under consideration by The Law Commission of England and Wales and The Scottish Law Commission.

25
Jan
2020

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

Louisa Ghevaert was delighted to join the debate on BBC Radio 5 Live on 21 January 2020 with Emma Barnett on whether law in the UK should be changed to enable the harvesting of dead men's sperm for posthumous conception by strangers.

15
Jan
2020

Why we need fertility and wider law reform part II

Root and branch law reform is required to address powerful inter-connected digital, artificial intelligence, genomic, epigenetic and reproductive revolutions that will increasingly impact and change our lives and those of future generations. This complex, inter-linked and rapidly evolving matrix will increasingly mean we can no longer adopt traditional independent approaches, particularly across the fertility sector. Instead, centralised national law, policy and regulation, international consensus and new international legal frameworks will increasingly be required.

05
Dec
2019

A Realistic Look at Assisted Reproduction

Progress Educational Trust’s one-day conference entitled “Reality Check: A Realistic Look At Assisted Reproduction” took place in London on 4 December 2019. Louisa Ghevaert was delighted to attend the event and join the debate addressing key issues affecting fertility treatment in the UK and globally.

25
Nov
2019

Why we need fertility law reform: the paradigm shift

Over the next ten to twenty years and beyond, the world will evolve rapidly to take account of powerful digital, artificial intelligence, genomic science, epigenetic and human reproductive revolutions. We will need to adopt an enlightened and multi-disciplinary approach as genetic medicine and science increasingly cross-cuts fertility treatment delivery. This will require a paradigm shift in our thinking, leadership and approach to law, policy and regulation. We will increasingly need new national and international legal frameworks and safeguards.

05
Nov
2019

Perspectives on Fertility Forum 2019

LaingBuisson’s Fertility Forum in London on 1 November 2019 addressed a wide range of global issues, factors and trends which are influencing the rapidly evolving fertility sector. In addition to trends in delayed motherhood, it identified wider factors including technological advances, increased fertility awareness, greater social acceptance of modern family forms and changes in law and policy enabling greater access to assisted reproductive technology.

22
Oct
2019

Fertility Forum 2019

Louisa Ghevaert will join an expert panel of speakers at the LaingBuisson Fertility Forum 2019 at the Hilton London Olympia on 1 November 2019. Fertility Forum is a one-day international conference aimed at clinics, hospitals, infertility specialists, patient organisations, interest groups, investors and other advisors involved in domestic and cross border reproductive care. Fertility Forum 2019 will focus on European and international trends in the fertility sector.

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