Porter Dodson’s fertility and parenting law team is headed by Louisa Ghevaert. Louisa is a prominent commentator on television, radio and in the national press concerning fertility, parenting and surrogacy law issues, as well as a widely published author, public speaker and an influential lawyer at a law and policy making level. Louisa’s pioneering practice of fertility and parenting law in the UK and her international practice mark her out as a leading expert in her field.
Please click on the links below for related fertility, parenting and surrogacy media items, publications and articles.
Media
BBC Radio Berkshire – interview with Louisa Ghevaert and Professor Robert Winston regarding new IVF treatment guidelines for PCTs (20 February 2013)
The Age-Old Question: the impact of age
- BioNews (7 January 2013)
BBC Radio Berkshire – interview with Louisa Ghevaert concerning the IVF postcode lottery and legal challenge against Secretary of State for Health - BBC Radio Berkshire (3 December 2012)
National Geographic TV Documentary TABOO, Series 9, Episode 905 “Strange Passions” on private sperm donation featuring Louisa Ghevaert (August 2012) - see video section
Surrogacy law interview featuring Louisa Ghevaert with Ukrainian TV channel (Inter TV, 15 July 2012) - see video section
Infertile woman, aged 24, accuses trust of age discrimination after being refused IVF -British Medical Journal (11 June 2012)
Too young to have IVF: 24-year-old woman fights for her right to fertility treatment - The Independent (5 June 2012)
Too young for IVF: Wife, 24, told she must wait until she is 30 for treatment - The Daily Mail (5 June 2012)
Woman Cries Discrimination After She Was Denied Free IVF Due To her Young Age - French Tribune (5 June 2012)
Woman Denied IVF Treatment – TopNews New Zealand
(4 June 2012)
IVF Postcode Lottery programme -(BBC1, 8 March 2012)
see the video section
Couple win legal fight to receive IVF treatment – The Portsmouth News (21 December 2011)
Couple win IVF funding battle with NHS - The Telegraph
(20 December 2011)
BBC South Today – Couple win IVF funding battle with PCT following Louisa Ghevaert’s successful representation of Donna and Dean Marshall (BBC1, 20 December 2011) see video section
BBC Radio Somerset – interview with Louisa Ghevaert concerning the IVF postcode lottery – BBC Radio Somerset (1 July 2011 – link not currently available)
BBC Radio 5 Live – surrogacy interview with Louisa Ghevaert and well known UK surrogate mother Jill Hawkins (BBC1, 23 January 2011 – link not available)
BBC Breakfast surrogacy interview with Louisa Ghevaert and well known UK surrogate mother Jill Hawkins (BBC 1, 23 January 2011) see video section
BBC Radio 4 Today Programme – debate on whether surrogacy law should be changed with Louisa Ghevaert and Dr David King, Director of Human Genetics Alert (BBC Radio 4, 21 January 2011)
BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour - surrogacy interview on the ethics of paying for surrogacy with Louisa Ghevaert, Barry Barlow-Drewitt and writer Julie Bindel (BBC Radio 4, 19 January 2011)
Mother to freeze eggs so her infertile daughter, 2 , can one day give birth to her own brother or sister - The Daily Mail (11 January 2011)
Surrogacy couple: paying American woman was our last chance for a child
The Telegraph (11 December 2010)
Childless couples win right to pay surrogate mother to bear their child
The Daily Mail (9 December 2010)
Childless couples win right to pay surrogate mothers – The Telegraph
(9 December 2010)
Reform our surrogacy laws – London Evening Standard letters
(12 November 2010)
Sperm donor websites: the baby delivery service – The Telegraph
(26 September 2010)
Why can’t I have a baby on my own? – The Independent
(20 May 2010)
The Times Lawyer of the Week – featuring Louisa Ghevaert
(The Times, 1 October 2009)
Law Society Gazette Lawyer in the News – featuring Louisa Ghevaert
(Law Society Gazette, 17 September 2009)
Couple win battle to save frozen embryos from destruction
The Times (10 September 2009)
Publications and articles
Zachary Quinto: Seeking the final frontier
- Pink Parenting (May/June 2013)
Charlize Theron: Africa, awards and adoption
- Fertility Road (April/May 2013)
Rosie O’Donnell: Actress, Activist, Adopter
- Pink Parenting (Spring 2013)
Matt Bomer: Fame, fatherhood and surrogacy – Pink Parenting (Winter 2013)
The New Landscape: A Resolution workshop Review – The Review (November/December 2012)
Hollywood Housewife – Fertility Road (October/November 2012)
TV is making same sex parenting more acceptable – Pink Parenting
(Summer/Autumn 2012)
The IVF Postcode Lottery Must Stop – BioNews (2 July 2012)
US of Gay – Pink Parenting
(June/July 2012)
Surrogacy and the Celebrity Factor - Fertility Road
(April/May 2012)
The International Family Law Practice 2nd Edition – Family Law
(March 2012)
The Modern Family (A Resolution Guide) – Resolution
(March 2012)
The art of successful co-parenting - Pink Parenting
(Winter 2011/2012)
International surrogacy: a legal minefield? – Fertility Road
(Winter 2011/2012)
International surrogacy: navigating the legal pitfalls – Pink Parenting (September/October 2011)
Legal Lowdown on adoption, fostering and surrogacy – Pink Parenting (July/August 2011)
IVF, donor conception and surrogacy: Is progressive global regulation possible? Louisa Ghevaert (BioNews, July 2011)
International surrogacy: payments, public policy and media hype - Louisa Ghevaert and Natalie Gamble (Family Law, May 2011)
Surrogacy, parenthood and disputes: are there any lessons to be learned? – Natalie Gamble and Louisa Ghevaert (BioNews, February 2011)
International Surrogacy: progress or media hype? – Louisa Ghevaert
(BioNews, January 2011)
Lesbian mothers in dispute T v B – Natalie Gamble and Louisa Ghevaert
(Family Law, November 2010)
Stonewall Gay Dads’ Guide – Natalie Gamble and Louisa Ghevaert
(October 2010)
Birth certificates: a new era? – Louisa Ghevaert
(BioNews, May 2010)
Bringing up baby (the options for gay men) - Natalie Gamble and Louisa Ghevaert (Out in the City magazine, May 2010)
What happens when surrogacy goes wrong? The recent Indiana case in its wider context – Louisa Ghevaert (BioNews, February 2010)
International surrogacy, fertility tourism and the American Bar Association – Louisa Ghevaert (The Review, January/February 2010)
Parenthood for same-sex couples – Stonewall guide
(December 2009)
Moving surrogacy law forward? The Department of Health Consultation on parental orders – Natalie Gamble and Louisa Ghevaert (BioNews, 27 October 2009)
The chosen middle ground, England, surrogacy law and the international arena – Natalie Gamble and Louisa Ghevaert (International Family Law, November 2009)
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008: Revolution or Evolution? – Natalie Gamble and Louisa Ghevaert (Family Law, August 2009)
The changing face of parenthood – Louisa Ghevaert
(Family Law Journal, July/August 2009)
Pregnant Pause: a guide for lesbians on how to get pregnant – Stonewall guide
(July 2009)
Re X and Y (foreign surrogacy): a trek through a thorn forest - Lucy Theis QC, Natalie Gamble and Louisa Ghevaert (Family Law, March 2009)
Surrogacy law must be reviewed to stop more British couples ending up in a legal nightmare – Louisa Ghevaert (BioNews, January 2009)
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