Rita’s interview features in the ‘Law’ section of the website under ‘Professional’. Rita discusses one aspect of her research in the field of surrogacy.
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In the short video interview (available here), Dr Rita D’Alton-Harrison discusses some of the problems in the legal drafting of section 54 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 by using the case of Re X as an example. Rita explains why judge made law can be problematic especially when interpreting legislation. Finally, Rita also challenges the use of statutory interpretation to rewrite clear words and phrases within legislation.
