Natalie Sutherland

First published on Today’s Family Lawyer on 10 November 2023. There’s been a lot going on in the world of fertility and modern families in the last few months and even more exciting developments are on the horizon. Partner and...

First published on Today's Family Lawyer on 5 April 2023 - Building families through surrogacy: A new law The Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission, on the 29th March, released their report and...

First published on LexisNexis’ family law blog on 24 February 2023 - Posthumous grandchildren? The floodgates remain closed In Re X (Catastrophic Injury: Collection and Storage of Sperm) [2022] EWCOP 48, Poole J,...

X v Z (Parental Order Adult) [2022] EWFC 26 In our third and final blog in the National Surrogacy Week ( https://surrogacyweek.co.uk/ ) series, we look at the first ever Parental Order that was made in respect of a surrogate born child...

H v United Kingdom In our second blog in the National Surrogacy Week ( https://surrogacyweek.co.uk/ ) series, we look at a European Court of Human Rights case which involved a young girl born through surrogacy. She took the UK...

Jennings v Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority [2022] EWHC 1619 (Fam) National Surrogacy Week https://surrogacyweek.co.uk/ runs from 1 to 7 August 2022. Throughout the week we will be publishing a series of blogs...

First published by Family Law Journal (Legalease) in May 2022. Natalie Sutherland is a partner at Burgess Mee and a trustee of Progress Educational Trust Natalie Sutherland looks at posthumous conception and...

Rob Hanna , of Legally Speaking Podcast , hosts the miniseries Fertility in the Workplace . He is joined by Natalie Sutherland of Burgess Mee Family Law and Somaya Ouazzani of Mimoza Fleur in four discussions: How Can Law Firms Do...

First published by Today's Family Lawyer on 7 October 2021 - Reform of UK fertility laws – ripe for change On 6th September, the Government announced an overhaul of the UK’s fertility laws, with...

The ‘traditional’ family unit consists of a mother and a father, who are respectively female and male, and that heterosexual gender-conforming couple bringing a child into the world will likely do so without ever thinking that ‘the...

Surrogacy & Donor Conception - w/ Natalie Sutherland, Mr Divorce Coach & Fay Petcher - The Divorce Coaching Podcast Ep19. First published by Divorce Coaching Podcast on 2 August 2021. Partner at Burgess Mee, Natalie Sutherland, joined Tom...

Introduction to Surrogacy, first published by Family Law Week and hosted by Rachel Cooper of Coram Chambers , gives and introduction to surrogacy law in England and Wales and looks at some interesting cases in the family court. Rachel is...

Part 2: When things go wrong. In Part 1 of this blog series, I looked at why you should obtain legal advice before conceiving using donor gametes and how that affects legal parenthood. In Part 2 I will consider what happens if you discover after...

Part 1: Legal Parenthood. If you are considering building your family through donor conception, chances are you have already travelled a long road of infertility or perhaps you are a same sex couple where donor conception is something you have come to...

First published by Rock My Age on 11 February 2021. Erika Uffindell speaks to Natalie Sutherland about the complexities faced in surrogacy but they also look at the rewarding feeling that comes from helping others start or grow their family. ...

With the news being dominated by Covid-19 for the last 9 months, we have had a bit of a break from hearing about ‘Brexit’. But, like it or not, Brexit will happen and the laws that we apply to family law issues come January 2021, will be very...

#30 Finally Pregnatn x Modern Fmaily Bonus Episode - Surrogacy Law , first published by Finally Pregnant on 27 November 2020. Cat Strawbridge speaks to Natalie Sutherland about surrogacy law in the United Kingdom. Click here to to listen...

UK intended parents considering a US surrogacy journey - First published by Patriot Conceptions on 23 November 2020 What you need to know Family building through surrogacy is a complex and time...