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Home > Judgments Case summary coming soon Neutral Citation Number: [2017] EWHC 2176 (Fam)Case No: LE17P00251IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICEFAMILY DIVISIONBirmingham Civil Justice CentreB4 6DS Date: 23/08/2017 Before : MR. JUSTICE KEEHAN- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Between : M Applicant- and - F 1st RespondentSM2nd Respondent- and -A (BY HIS GUARDIAN)3rd Respondent - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Andrew Powell (instructed by JMW Solicitors LLP) for the The ApplicantThe 1st Respondent did not attend and was not representedKatherine Duncan (instructed by Mills & Reeve) for the The 2nd RespondentMartin Kingerley (instructed by CAFCASS) for the The 3rd Respondent Hearing dates: 4th July 2017- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Judgment Approved MR. JUSTICE KEEHAN This judgment was delivered in private. The judge has given leave for this version of the judgment to be published on condition … Continue reading →

According to data released by the Health Ministry, last year (ended in March), 12,281 women put in applications for the medical termination of their pregnancies. The figure was 23.4% higher compared to the preceding year.Permission was granted to 8,537 applicants, which indicates that the number of permits increased by 19.8% compared to the preceding year, said Ahmad Shojaee, head of the Legal Medicine Organization, ILNA reported.Provinces with the highest number of medical abortions were Tehran (1,145), Khorasan Razavi (966), Khuzestan (911), Fars (606), Isfahan (516), Kerman (330), and Alborz (320).Termination of pregnancy is legal in Iran unless the woman can prove that giving birth would pose a health risk to herself or her baby.Verified genetic testing, ultrasound, written consent of mother, gestational period of less than 19 weeks of the fetus, besides approval by three medical specialists is mandatory for therapeutic abortion, Shojaee said.The reason for the increase can be attributed to the peoples raised awareness of genetic counseling. Counseling and genetic tests are the most effective ways of preventing congenital defects in new born babies. Unsafe AbortionsAccording to the World Health Organization (WHO) induced abortion rate declined significantly in the developed world between 1990 and 2014, but not in … Continue reading →

The man argued that laws around surrogacy arrangements discriminated against single people (Picture: Getty) A man has won the right to be a single dad through surrogacy. The single man who fathered a child via a surrogate mother had last year arguedthat laws around surrogacy arrangements discriminated against single people. He claimed the wording of part of the 2008 Fertilisation and Embryology Act meant only a couple could apply to become a childs legal parents. Sir James Munby, the most senior family court judge in England and Wales, agreed with him. The judge, President of the Family Division of the High Court, made a declaration of incompatibility after analysing the case at a hearing on London. Following this, another judge has said ministers are now actively considering a change to address the incompatibility. Mr Justice Keehan, who is also based in the Family Division of the High Court, has outlined Government plans in a ruling on a similar case. He said in the hearing in Birmingham a single woman wanted to become a childs legal parent following an arrangement with a surrogate mother. The judge said the woman had been in a relationship with a man when the surrogacy arrangement … Continue reading →

TEHRAN The Royan International Research Award will appreciate ten Iranian and foreign researchers for their achievements during a ceremony which is scheduled to be held in Tehran on August 30. Iranian researchers along with foreign researchers from around the world will accept awards on behalf of their scientific achievements concurrent with Royan International Twin Congress on Reproductive Biomedicine and Stem Cells Biology and Technology (August 30-September 1). According to the Royan congress official website the event is a unique scientific event in its own fields in Iran and the Middle East. The congress is a joint of two separate congresses with different themes held by Royan Research Institute Reproductive Biomedicine and Stem Cells Research Center. Speakers from the UK, Europe and the U.S deliver speeches at the event annually. Thank you for all of exceptional assistance in arranging my most interesting visit to the Royan institute and Iran. It was the best congress I have ever been at, everyone was extremely conscious, kind and helpful, said Stuart Howards, Professor of University of Virginia Charlottesville, U.S., about the event published among the views on the event in Royan congress website. Elsewhere Professor Jorge Ferrer, Chair in Genetics and Medicine, Section Head, … Continue reading →

Contributed To kick off a new year, the St. Johns County 4-H Youth Development Program will host an enrollment Open House from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday at the St. Johns County Extension Office, 3125 Agricultural Center Drive. At the open house, families will have an opportunity to learn more about 4-H and all it has to offer. 4-H is a youth development program for young people ages 5 to 18. The program, which focuses on the development of life skills, citizenship and leadership, has been around for more than 100 years and provides opportunities for youth to use their head, heart, hands and health to positively develop into competent, caring and contributing citizens. St. Johns County has more than 20 different 4-H clubs, and more than 30 county schools participate in 4-H in-the-classroom projects such as public speaking and chicken embryology. Some of the 4-H clubs and projects that are accepting new members include the Aerospace Club, Dog Club, Cooking Club, Farm Life Club, Dreamcatcher Stables Club, Horseination Club, Plant Science Project, Outdoor Buckaroos Club, Happy Hoppers Club, Odyssey of the Minds Project, Crazy Comets Science Club, Hairy Caterpillars Club, Palencia Culinary and Garden Clubs, Clever Clovers Club, Cloverbud … Continue reading →

The legal procedure for obtaining a parental order in England and Wales is complicated. It can be both confusing and expensive for applicants. In Re Z (Foreign Surrogacy: Allocation of Work: Guidance on Parental Order Reports) [2015] EWFC 90 Russell J said that international surrogacy cases invariably involve some legal complexity. As a result, all proceedings under section 54 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (s54 HFEA 2008) where the child was born outside of England and Wales are allocated to a High Court judge. At the moment, applications for parental orders in international cases involve two hearings. The first is a directions hearing at which the judge timetables the filing of evidence, directs a parental order report and lists a final hearing. The second is the final hearing at which the order is made, usually without complication. However, as surrogacy has increased in popularity, so has the number of relatively straightforward cases and the need for reform is clear. Not all international cases involve legal complexity, yet the stringent rules and processes continue to apply. In these cases, it would seem eminently sensible if the two hearings could be condensed to one. This happened in a recent … Continue reading →

Home > Judgments Case summary coming soon This judgment was handed down in open court Case numbers omitted Neutral Citation Number: [2017] EWHC 1154 (Fam) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICEFAMILY DIVISIONRoyal Courts of JusticeStrand, London, WC2A 2LL Date: 28 July 2017 Before : SIR JAMES MUNBY PRESIDENT OF THE FAMILY DIVISION- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - In the Matter of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008(Case AK)- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mr Dorian Day (instructed by Jennings Solicitors) for the applicantMs Marlene Cayoun (instructed by DAC Beachcroft LLP) for Care Fertility Northampton Hearing date: 21 July 2017 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Judgment Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division : 1.Since I handed down judgment in In re A and others (Legal Parenthood: Written Consents) [2015] EWHC 2602 (Fam), … Continue reading →

A man has fathered twins using sperm frozen almost 27 years earlier and earned himself a world record. He now holds the Guinness World Record for the oldest sperm ever successfully used for in vitro fertilisation (IVF). The father, a musician from Glasgow who holds the record anonymously, said he had a message for other cancer patients. People going through chemotherapy should keep hope, he said. When we finally saw on a scan we were having twins I was in shock. I kept looking for a third heartbeat, thinking we might even be having triplets. He had his sperm frozen when he was diagnosed with cancer aged 21, and became a father to twins when he was 47. Doctors told him chemotherapy treatment would make him infertile so his sperm was frozen for 26 years and 243 days. When he met his partner he had to explain that she would need IVF if they were to have children. The couple, who live in Glasgow, did not use the sperm until 2010, when he was 47 and she was 37. She became pregnant with twins and the boy and girl were born in 2011. The father said he knew he held … Continue reading →

By The Herald Staff COFFEYVILLE Showing livestock comes naturally for a Central Heights High School freshman. Cheyenne Higbie added to her list of achievements by taking the reserve grand champion junior heifer title Wednesday at the 2017 Inter-State Fairs junior heifer show in Coffeyville, according to a news release. Higbie, 14, showed her Simmental heifer, named Black Ice, who also won champion Simmental, the release said. Black Ice, who was born in February 2016, weighs about 1,300 pounds and was aptly named because when she was born, she had this style to her, Higbie said. She was always black, never had a tint of brown, and she was smooth like ice. Higbie said Black Ice has a unique personality as the heifer will attempt to eat human food and drink her Gatorade. Shes very smart, and sometimes she thinks shes a person, Higbie said. Black Ice also loves to take off her halter, Higbie said. She gets loose and will be in the barn, but she wont go anywhere, Higbie said. Higbie learned the heifer needs a neck rope. She said with the neck rope on, Black Ice doesnt try to remove her halter. The Higbie family moved from Coffeyville … Continue reading →

[Dowload PDF from here] Pre-release version 0.5 February 2011 Commentators assert that the quranic view on human development was plagiarised from ancient Greek (Hellenic) embryology. They specifically claim that the Prophet Muhammad plagiarised the works of the ancient Greek philosopher and polymath Aristotle, and the 2nd century physician and philosopher Galen. To respond to this accusation, this section will articulate the mainstream Islamic scholarly position that the Prophet did not plagiarise or borrow ideas from Hellenic medicine. Does similarity imply plagiarism? To address the contention that the Prophet Muhammad borrowed or plagiarised Hellenic views on embryology, the philosophical implications of inferring plagiarism from similarity must be discussed. If there is a similarity between two things X and Y, to make the inference that X copied Y or Y copied X would require some form of evidence. Otherwise, the argument will be fallacious as it will commit the fallacy of argumentum ad ignoratiam, in other words, arguing from ignorance. Take the following example into consideration: there are two patent applications that have arrived at the patent office in the UK. The patent officer examines both applications and they appear to have a similar design for a particular product. Can the patent … Continue reading →