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Medicine

08 July 2016
Issue: 7706 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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R (on the application of IM and another) v Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority [2016] EWCA Civ 611, [2016] All ER (D) 06 (Jul)

 

The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, allowed the applicants’ appeal against a refusal to set aside the decision of the respondent Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority not to allow them to export their late daughter’s eggs to a clinic in the US to be fertilised with donor sperm and implanted in the applicant mother with the intention that any resulting child would be raised as the applicants’ grandchild. The decision had contained material misstatements of evidence concerning the daughter’s wishes, had failed to give reasons why it had considered that the daughter had had to have certain information before she could have given effective consent to the applicants’ proposed actions and had failed to have decided what relevant information the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 had required the daughter to have had.

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Kingsley Napley—Claire Green

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Firm announces appointment of chief legal officer

Weightmans—Emma Eccles & Mark Woodall

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Gilson Gray—Linda Pope

Gilson Gray—Linda Pope

Partner joins family law team inLondon

NEWS
The landmark Supreme Court’s decision in Johnson v FirstRand Bank Ltd—along with Rukhadze v Recovery Partners—redefine fiduciary duties in commercial fraud. Writing in NLJ this week, Mary Young of Kingsley Napley analyses the implications of the rulings
Barristers Ben Keith of 5 St Andrew’s Hill and Rhys Davies of Temple Garden Chambers use the arrest of Simon Leviev—the so-called Tinder Swindler—to explore the realities of Interpol red notices, in this week's NLJ
Mazur v Charles Russell Speechlys [2025] has upended assumptions about who may conduct litigation, warn Kevin Latham and Fraser Barnstaple of Kings Chambers in this week's NLJ. But is it as catastrophic as first feared?
Lord Sales has been appointed to become the Deputy President of the Supreme Court after Lord Hodge retires at the end of the year
Limited liability partnerships (LLPs) are reportedly in the firing line in Chancellor Rachel Reeves upcoming Autumn budget
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