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	text:  larger  smaller		Ruth Deech Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education  Ruth Deech was Principal of St. Anne's College from 1991 to 2004 and former Fellow and Tutor in Law of that college, specialising in Family and Property Law. Hon. LLD Strathclyde University. From 1994-2000 she was Chairman of the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, established by legislation in 1990 to consider ethical questions arising from advances in reproductive medicine, and to regulate research and treatment of infertility. She was a member of the Committee of Inquiry into Equal Opportunities on the Bar Vocational Course 1993-4. She has been a Governor of the BBC since 2002, a Rhodes Trustee from 1996 and an Honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Society of Family Law, a member of the Editorial Board of Child and Family Law Quarterly and an Honorary Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies. News New Bar Standards Board Chair Publications (sorted by year) Ruth Deech, 'The HFEA 10 years on' in Gunning and Szoke (eds), The Regulation of ART (Ashworth 2003) Ruth Deech, M-T Meulders-Klein and P. Vlaardingerbroek, Biomedicine, the Family & Human Rights (Kluwer 2002) Abstract: Papers given at the International Society of Family Conference on this theme, 1999, Oxford ISBN: 90-411-1627-3 Ruth Deech, 'Progress with Confidence in Assisted Reproductive Techniques' (2002) 12 Journal of Japan Association for Bioethics 193 Abstract: A survey of regulation of reproductive medicine Ruth Deech, 'Regulation of Therapeutic Cloning in the UK' (2002) Vol 6, Compendium 1 Reproductive Medicine online 81-85 URL: www.rbmonline.com Abstract: Legislation on stem cells and cloning ISBN: 1472-6483 Correspondence address: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HS Link to personal web site Link to St Anne's College Link to University email/phone directory in new window