An investment manager is fighting for the right to have a baby using the last remaining embryo he created with his late wife, after they spent a years desperately trying to have children.
Widower Ted Jennings, 38, of Highbury, north London, used his sperm to create multiple embryos with Fern-Marie Choya during several rounds of IVF treatments between 2013 and 2018.
He has now asked Mrs Justice Theis at the High Court to rule that it would be lawful for him to place the last embryo - which was created in 2018 and has been stored - 'in treatment with a surrogate mother'.
But lawyers representing the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority said Mr Jennings' application should be dismissed.
They argued that it would not be lawful to use the embryo because Mr Jennings' accountant wife, who died in 2019, aged 40 after becoming pregnant, had not provided written consent.
The judge considered Mr Jennings' application at a public hearing in the Family Division of the High Court in London on Thursday and is expected to deliver a written ruling in the near future.
Widower Ted Jennings (pictured), 38, of Highbury, north London, used his sperm to create multiple embryos with his late wife Fern-Marie Choya, following several rounds of IVF treatments between 2013 and 2018.
Mr Jennings has now asked Mrs Justice Theis to rule that it would be lawful for him to use the last embryo - which was created in 2018 and has been stored - 'in treatment with a surrogate mother'. (Pictured: Fern Marie Choya)
