The British Court of Appeal today allowed a British government challenge to a controversial High Court decision that it was claimed effectively wrecked legislation designed to regulate cloning.
Allowing the appeal, the Master of the Rolls, Lord Phillips, sitting with two other judges, said: "I hold that an organism which is CNR (cloning) falls within the definition of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act."
The appeal follows a judgment in November when Mr Justice Crane said that an organism created by cell nuclear replacement was not an embryo and therefore not covered by the Act.
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