AIG -v- Secretary of State for the Home Department (anonymity order)

Administrative CourtCivilHigh CourtKing's Bench DivisionAnonymity Order

Case number: AC-2024-LON-004021

In the High Court of Justice
King’s Bench Division
Administrative Court

In the matter of an application

6 December 2024

Before:

the Hon. Mrs Justice Stacey

Between:

The King
on the application of
AIG

-v-

Secretary of State for the Home Department

Anonymity order

On an application by the Claimant for urgent consideration, an anonymity order, interim relief and directions

And following consideration of the documents lodged by the applicant

ORDER by the Hon. Mrs Justice Stacey:

  1. The Defendant shall, by no later than 4pm on Wednesday 11 December 2024, file and serve a response to the Claimant’s application for interim relief.
  2. The Claimant’s Application for interim relief shall be considered as soon as possible on or after Thursday 12 December 2024.
  3. Pursuant to CPR Rule 39.2(4) and CPR Rule 5.4C, anonymity is granted in the following terms:
    (a) Pursuant to CPR Rule 39.2(4) there shall be no publication in any newspaper or other media or other disclosure of any name, address, image or other information tending to identify the Claimant in relation to his involvement in these proceedings.
    (b) In any publication or broadcast relating to these proceedings, the Claimant shall be known by the letters ‘AIG’.
    (c) Pursuant to CPR Rule 5.4C a person who is not a party to the proceedings may obtain a copy of the Statement of Case, Judgment or Order from the Court records only if a Statement of Case, Judgment or Order has been anonymised such that:
    i. The Claimant is referred to in those documents as ‘AIG’.
    ii. The address of the Claimant has been deleted from those documents.
    iii. For the purpose of this claim, including any Statement of Case, Judgment, Order or other document, the Claimant shall be known by the letters ‘AIG’.

(d) In so far as any Statement of Case, Judgment, Order or other documents to which anyone might have access pursuant to CPR Rule 5.4A – D does not comply with paragraph 3 above, the Claimant’s Solicitors have permission to file with the Court copies of any such document adjusted so that it does comply. Such copies are to be treated for all purposes as being in substitution for the relevant original; and the originals are then to be
retained by the Court in a sealed envelope marked “not to be opened without the permission of a Judge or Master of the King’s Bench Division”.
(e) Any interested party, whether or not a party to the proceedings, may apply to the Court to vary or discharge this Order, providing that any such application is made on notice to the Claimant’s Solicitor and that 7 working days’ prior notice of the intention to make such an Application is given. The Court will affect service of the application.

  1. Costs reserved.

REASONS

  1. The matter is sufficiently urgent for time to be abridged to enable the interim relief application to be determined next week if at all possible.

Signed: Mrs Justice Stacey
Dated: 6 December 2024