Jemma is the partner in the Adoption, Surrogacy and International Child Care department. She specialises in and has extensive experience of complex international adoption, surrogacy and children cases as well as being highly regarded for her expertise in cases involving children who are conceived by way of artificial insemination under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008. She successfully represented more than 30 families after her landmark success in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (A & Ors) 2015 EWHC 2602 concerning the acquisition of legal parenthood in respect of children conceived using donor sperm. Jemma is also a member of the Association of Lawyers for Children (ALC), Resolution, the IBA and she is accredited as a specialist in adoption and private law children cases. IBA Family Law Committee Newsletter, Family Law Week and Lexis Nexis and Stonewall. Jemma was interviewed for The Times Lawyer of the Week.
