Louisa Ghevaert has today been featured in the Times as their Lawyer of the Week. We are delighted with this accolade, which follows Natalie and Louisa’s representation of Melanie and Robert Gladwin in their bid to save their embryos from destruction, and the government’s decision to change the law as a result.
More from our blog about the Gladwin case and the government’s decision to change embryo storage law.
The Gazette, published each week and sent to all solicitors in the UK, has chosen Louisa as this week’s featured lawyer of the week. It follows Natalie and Louisa’s success in achieving a change to embryo storage laws allowing our clients Robert and Melanie Gladwin to continue to store their much-wanted embryos, reported in the press last week.
The Daily Telegraph have featured a case we are acting in involving a couple from Gloucester who are fighting to save their stored embryos. A question of timing means that Mr and Mrs Gladwin do not benefit from fertility law regulations which would otherwise allow them to store their embryos for much longer than the basic five year period normally permitted by the law. Read the article ‘Woman cancer survivor told she cannot keep frozen embryos’.
For further information on the legal issues see the article ‘Embryo storage law leaves some parents out in the cold’ on our blog, and our Storage Periods for Embryos and Gametes page on our website.