When international surrogacy goes wrong
A recent cross-border case should be a 'cautionary tale' to anyone considering surrogacy to do their research and engage a reputable agency, writes lawyer Suzi Denton...
Suzi Denton
Practice Development Lawyer at Irwin Mitchell
Suzi Denton is a Practice Development Lawyer in the Family team at Irwin Mitchell. She uses her extensive and varied experience in Family and Fertility law to support the team, providing expert advice, training and guidance on complex private children and financial remedies work.
BioNews Articles by Suzi Denton
High court orders fertility clinic to release deceased man's records
A fertility clinic has been ordered to disclose records pertaining to the use of a dead patient's sperm to the personal representative of the patient's estate...
Surrogate families separated by coronavirus travel restrictions
The COVID-19 pandemic is preventing many families expecting children through international surrogacy from being present for the birth, or from bringing their child home...
Colorado fertility doctor who used own sperm responds to lawsuit
At least six women and their families are suing a doctor for negligence and fraud, after they discovered that he had used his own sperm in their fertility treatment...
First UAE surrogacy case ruling
A court in the United Arab Emirates has ruled that a woman whose husband had a child through surrogacy without her knowledge or consent, is not the child's mother...
Indian surrogate's death raises concern over exploitation
A pregnant surrogate has died at hospital in New Delhi, while a new surrogacy law awaits approval by the Indian Parliament...
Book Review: Birth Rights and Wrongs - How Medicine and Technology are Remaking Reproduction and the Law
In his new book, Professor Dov Fox shines a light on the harms that are done to fertility patients, and the lack of protection which the law in the USA affords them...
Gay couple file lawsuit against US state department after baby denied citizenship
A married couple has been told that their daughter is ineligible for US citizenship despite the fact that they are both American citizens...
New York Senate passes bill to allow commercial surrogacy
A bill that proposes to lift the ban on commercial surrogacy in New York State was passed by the State Senate last week...
Indiana first US state to write 'fertility fraud' into law
Indiana has become the first US state to pass legislation making it a criminal offence for fertility doctors to use their own sperm in treatment without their patients’ prior knowledge and consent...