Appeals Committee
The HFEA Appeals Committee has been established under Section 20A of the Human Fertilisation & Embryology Act 1990 (as amended) and The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Appeals) Regulations 2009.
The Appeals Committee will meet to hear requests for reconsideration of Authority decisions about licences to carry out fertility treatment and embryo research.
The chair and members of the Appeals Committee are not members of the Authority and will provide an impartial perspective.
- The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Appeals) Regulations 2009
- Guidance for members (and committee members concerning conflicts of interest)
Appeals Committee member biographies
Jonathan Watt-Pringle (chair)
Jonathan Watt-Pringle QC qualified as a lawyer at the University of Stennbosh, South Africa before coming to this country on a Rhodes Scholarship...
Ms Hilary Newiss (deputy chair)
Hilary Newiss qualified as a solicitor in 1981 and was formerly a partner and Head of Intellectual Property in the law firm Denton Hall...
Ms Julia Drown
Julia Drown is a member of the Health Professions Council and a partner member of the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s Business Planning and Governance Committee.
Mrs Jennifer Dunlop
Jennifer Dunlop is a Senior Counsellor in the Department of Reproductive Medicine at St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester. She was a social and ethical inspector, and then a specialist advisor for the HFEA...
Mr Enda McVeigh
Enda McVeigh is a Senior Fellow in Reproductive Medicine in the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the University of Oxford...
Ms Catharine Seddon
After many years as a film documentary producer for BBC TV and then as an independent producer for Channel 4...
Page last updated: 12 June 2013
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