“Chris Grayling, the Justice Secretary, has revealed he wants to ban prisoners
from having access to costly fertility treatment from behind bars.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Sperm donors who know the parents to whom they have donated can apply for contact with their biological children, a court has ruled. Previously this was not allowed. The ruling has major implications for anyone who has a child conceived using the sperm of someone they know and for those considering starting a family this way.”
The Guardian, 31st January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A childless couple who have been refused NHS fertility treatment are suing Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, for age discrimination in a landmark legal case.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st December 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Human Fertilisation & Embyology Authority has launched a public consultation on the ethics of new IVF-based techniques designed to avoid serious mitochondrial diseases.”
Family Law Week, 17th September 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
“Where a child was conceived by a mother and a father by virtue of an agreement between them that the child would live with and be brought up in the care of the mother and her female partner as the primary care givers of the child, there could be no general rule in family proceedings that the biological father was to be regarded only as a ‘secondary’ parent or to have a limited relationship with the child. Each case was fact specific and the welfare of the child was paramount.”
WLR Daily, 14th March 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A woman left infertile by teenage cancer is having to battle the law to get doctors to give her back the ovary that she had frozen before chemotherapy.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th February 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A couple have won a rare victory over a health authority’s strict rules on infertility treatment, in a decision that could give hope to other would-be parents.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th December 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Care Quality Commission has been told to press on with plans to take over the policing of IVF clinics, despite warning that it cannot cope with the extra workload.”
The Guardian, 7th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two men who netted £250,000 after providing women with access to sperm through an illegal fertility company were spared an immediate jail term today.”
The Guardian, 12th October 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two men are facing jail after they were convicted yesterday of running an illegal fertility company that gave women access to sperm donors. Nigel Woodforth, 43, ran the operation from the basement of his home in Reading, Berkshire, with 49-year-old Ricky Gage. A jury at Southwark Crown Court, in south London, convicted both men of three counts each of providing sperm without a licence or third-party agreement.”
The Independent, 18th September 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Two businessmen earned £250,000 through an illegal fertility company providing women with access to sperm donors, a court heard today. In the first case of its kind, a jury was told that Nigel Woodforth, 43, ran the firm from the basement of his home in Reading, Berkshire, with 49-year-old Ricky Gage.”
The Guardian, 13th September 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Couples undergoing fertility treatment are being left at risk of embryo mix-ups and blunders because the industry regulator fails to take action early enough, a review has found.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th December 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Children conceived by egg or sperm donation will have the chance to find their biological siblings once they turn 18 under new laws which coming into effect, authorities said.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st October 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A couple spoke of their joy and renewed desire to have children last night after ministers allowed them to keep frozen embryos that otherwise would have been destroyed.”
The Times, 10th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Female couples now have the same rights as heterosexual couples when registering the birth of a child conceived as a result of fertility treatment.”
Home Office, 1st September 2009
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Women in same-sex relationships can now register both their names on the birth certificate of a child conceived as a result of fertility treatment.”
BBC News, 31st August 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A mother faces losing 11 frozen embryos under a new law which rules they must be destroyed after five years.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th July 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Lesbian couples and single women who have children through IVF will be able to name almost any adult as the second parent, under a law coming into force next month.”
The Guardian, 2nd March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Caroline Harris and Julie McMullan claim they are victims of discrimination because they are a same sex couple and have asked a judge to order fertility treatment for Miss Harris.”
Daily Telegraph., 26th February 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
