ATA -v- Secretary of State for the Home Department (anonymity order)
Claim no: SN/06/2024
IN THE SPECIAL IMMIGRATION APPEALS COMMISSION
24 January 2025
Before:
Mr Justice Jay
Between:
ATA
-v-
Secretary of State for the Home Department
Order
On the Appellant’s application for an anonymity order pursuant to rule 39(5)(h) of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Procedure) Rules 2003 and for an order restraining publication pursuant to section 11 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 (‘the application’)
On the Respondent having been notified of the application on 8 January 2025 by email
On the Legal Representatives (as defined in the Special Immigration Appeals Commission Practice Note on Anonymity Order sand Related Measures dated 29 November 2018 – the ‘Practice Note’) having been notified of the application on 8 January 2025 by email
On considering the documents lodged in accordance with paragraph 28 of the Practice Note namely (1) the application notice; (2) the Appellant’s witness statement; (3) legal submissions on behalf of the Appellant; (4) this draft order; and (5) an explanatory note (‘the Documents’)
And on the Appellant undertaking to keep the Commission and the Secretary of State informed of any matter which may affect the continued need for this order
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT:
- The Appellant be granted anonymity in relation to the conduct of proceedings in the Commission and will continue to be known in these proceedings as ATA.
- The Court’s file will be closed such that no access will be granted to non-parties pursuant to CPR 5.4C(4).
- Nothing may be published which directly or indirectly identifies him as an appellant in these proceedings before the Commission.
- There be liberty to apply on 48 hours’ written notice to the Commission, to the Appellant, to the Secretary of State and to the Legal Representatives (as defined in the Practice Note).
- This order continues until the OPEN judgment has been handed down in this appeal, or further order in the meantime, unless the Appellant indicates to the Commission, as soon as the OPEN judgment is circulated in draft, that he intends to apply for it to continue after the OPEN judgment is handed down, and applies to the Commission, before that judgment is handed down, for directions for the determination of any such application.