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Mohamed Taranissi welcomes Court's ruling of unlawful behaviour by the HFEA
IVF practitioner Mohamed Taranissi today won an extraordinary legal victory, five months after representatives of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, accompanied by the police, raided his clinics armed with search warrants that have now been ruled unlawful.
The High Court has quashed both the search warrants obtained by the HFEA and awarded Mr Taranissi his costs.
The legal proceedings had been due to go to a full hearing in early July after a judge granted permission in March 2007 for Mr Taranissi to proceed with the judicial review on the grounds that “the action of the HFEA in applying for and executing the warrants on 15 January 2007 was unjustified, disproportionate and unlawful and the evidence relied upon in support of the application was seriously defective” and, in part, “unfair and highly misleading”.
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The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) claims that its investigations into IVF clinician Mohamed Taranissi – which have been splashed across the headlines this week – are part of its important regulation of IVF treatment in Britain. It even led raids on Taranissi’s clinic on Monday, in tandem with a BBC Panorama documentary ‘exposing’ Taranissi. However, spiked has learned that there is more to this than meets the eye, and that the HFEA has been curiously heavy-handed in its dealings with Taranissi, and possibly unprofessional in its dealings with Panorama.