X And Y (Children), Re

This judgment is being handed down in private on 6 December 2011. It consists of 9 pages and has been signed and dated by the judge. The judge hereby gives leave for it to be reported.

The judgment is being distributed on the strict understanding that in any report no person other than the advocates or the solicitors instructing them (and other persons identified by name in the judgment itself) may be identified by name or location and that in particular the anonymity of the children and the adult members of their family must be strictly preserved

Alexandra Hewitt (instructed by J W Hughes & Co) for the Applicants Gwynneth Knowles QC (instructed by Humphrys and Co Solicitors) for the Children Hearing dates: 27 October 2011 ____________________

(a) that the relevant child has been commissioned as a result of either partial or total surrogacy and using the gametes of at least one of the commissioning parents [s.54 (1)];

(b) the applicants should be over the age of 18 and either husband and wife, civil partners, or persons living as partners in an enduring family relationship and not within prohibited degrees of relationship to each other [s.54(5) and s.54(2)];