Louisa Ghevaert

Louisa Maria Ghevaert (born September 1974) is a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales. She studied BA(Hons) Degree in History at the University of Bristol, before undertaking the Common Professional Entrance (CPE) and the Legal Practice Course (LPC) at the College of Law in Guildford.[1][2]

Career

Ghevaert specialises in fertility, surrogacy, donor conception, posthumous conception, adoption and family law, working on landmark legal cases for changes and improvements to fertility and family law for modern families in the UK. She is the founder of specialist fertility and family law firm Louisa Ghevaert Associates.[3][4][5]

In 2008, Ghevaert acted for British intended parents in Re X and Y (foreign surrogacy) 2008 EWHC 3030 (Fam), being the first case in UK legal history to test the law for British parents conceiving through an international commercial surrogacy arrangement in the Ukraine.[6]

In 2009 Ghevaert acted for Melanie and Robert Gladwin saving their frozen embryos from destruction and winning a last minute change to embryo storage law in the UK for surrogate pregnancies.[7]

Ghevaert acted for Donna and Dean Marshall in 2011, helping them win a rare legal battle for IVF funding on the NHS against their local hospital authority.[8]

In 2012, she acted for Andrea Heywood, who aged 24 was denied NHS funding for IVF by her local hospital authority for being too young.[9]

Ghevaert acted for the intended father in a UK surrogacy dispute JP v LP & Ors 2014,[10] which was the first case to test the law.[11]

She was part of the wife’s legal team in Y v A Healthcare NHS Trust & The HFEA & Ors 2018, a first-of-its kind legal ruling from the Court of Protection to extract and store sperm from a fatally injured man for use in posthumous fertility treatment.[12][13]

Ghevaert was awarded a place on The Lawyer Hot 100 List 2018.[14]

Publications

Legal and Regulatory Risks to Patients: The UK Context. (pg 97-109) Reducing Risk in Fertility Treatment (First Edition, April 2015)[15]

References
  1. "19/01/2011, Woman's Hour - BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
  2. "News and events at Kent Law School". Kent Law School - University of Kent. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
  3. "M & S PROFILE: Louisa Ghevaert". New Law Journal. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
  4. Donnelly, Laura (2017-03-10). "Couple's delight as lesbian surrogates give them the children they longed for". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2019-07-21.
  5. "Britons fuel rise in global surrogacy trade". The Independent. 2015-03-15. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
  6. Campbell, Denis; correspondent, health (2010-04-05). "Couples who pay surrogate mothers could lose right to raise the child". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-07-25.
  7. Tsang, Linda (2009-10-01). "Lawyer of the Week: Louisa Ghevaert". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
  8. Beckford, Martin (2011-12-19). "Couple win IVF funding battle with NHS". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
  9. "Too young to have IVF: 24-year-old Andrea Heywood fights for her right". The Independent. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
  10. Prynne, Miranda (2014-03-06). "DIY surrogate pregnancy deal ends in court battle". Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
  11. "Case leads to surrogacy advice". BBC News. 2014-03-06. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
  12. "Dying man with brain injury has sperm extracted in bid to allow wife to become pregnant". The Independent. Retrieved 2019-07-11.
  13. "Sperm taken from fatally injured man". The Times. 2019-07-11. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
  14. "The Lawyer Hot 100 2018: Louisa Ghevaert, Michelmores". The Lawyer | Legal insight, benchmarking data and jobs. 2018-01-29. Retrieved 2019-07-11.
  15. Reducing risk in fertility treatment. Mathur, Raj. London. 2015-03-11. ISBN 9781447152576. OCLC 904799138.CS1 maint: others (link)
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