The Law Reports (Queen's Bench Division)
[2002] QB 628
Court of Appeal
Regina (Quintavalle)
v
Secretary of State for Health
[2002] EWCA Civ 29
2002 Jan 16;
18
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers MR, Thorpe and Buxton LJJ
Licensing
— Human fertilisation
— Embryo
— Statutory licensing authority regulating creation of embryos outside body
— Definition of embryo as “live human embryo where fertilisation is complete”
— Creation of embryo by cell nuclear replacement using unfertilised human egg
— Whether within statutory definition
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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (c 37), s. 1(1)