The House of Lord's decision earlier this year signalled an end to the UK "Pro Life Alliance" cases which challenged the effectiveness of the UK statutory prohibition on cloning human embryos on the basis of deficiencies identified in the statutory definition of "embryo". This note considers the relevant challenge, the grounds on which the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords ultimately dismissed such challenge, and whether the Australian statutory prohibition on cloning human embryos introduced on 19 December 2002 could withstand a similar challenge.
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