Parentage: Fundamental failures

Seamus Burns | Family Law Journal | December 2015/January 2016 #152
In the first of a two-part analysis, Seamus Burns questions whether a recent decision of the president of the Family Division is a damning indictment on the infertility industry ‘Consent is a major legal and ethical pillar underpinning assisted reproduction and the regulatory and legislative regime.’ The decision in In the matter of the Human …

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Embryology: National lottery?

Seamus Burns | Family Law Journal | September 2012 #119
In the first of a two-part consideration Seamus Burns looks at the draft NICE Guidelines on the availability of IVF treatment The true extent of infertility in the UK must surely be a ‘guestimate’, but it is believed that approximately one in six heterosexual couples in the UK is affected by infertility. The draft revised …

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Parental Rights: Whose baby is it anyway?

Outer Temple Chambers (Chambers of James Counsell QC, Sarah Crowther QC and Keith Bryant QC) | Personal Injury Law Journal | March 2011 #93
Susan Freeborn assesses the legal status of the fetus ‘The proposition to tackle is this: the fetus has a right to life against everyone in the world except its mother. The only person who may, with the law’s blessing, end the life of the fetus is the mother of the fetus.’ Why is it that …

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