The WLR Daily case summaries
[2014] WLR (D) 135
MEDICAL PRACTITIONER— Medical treatment— Human fertilisation— Wife seeking to extend storage time of deceased’s husband’s sperm— — Clinic having failed to give husband relevant information to enable him to consent to extension of time— — Whether legislation to be read and given effect in way compatible with Convention rights— — Human Embryo and Fertilisation Act 1990 (as amended by Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Deceased Fathers) Act 2003, s 1), ss 14, 28 — — Human Rights Act 1998, s 3, Sch 1, Pt I, art 8— — Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Statutory Storage Period for Embryos and Gametes) Regulations 2009 (SI 2009/1582), regs 4, 7