AXA -v- City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council (anonymity order)
Claim number: 104DC057
In the County Court at Bradford
15 August 2025
Before:
District Judge Sundstrem-Brown
Between:
AXA
(by her Litigation Friend, the Official Solicitor)
-v-
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council
Order
Before District Judge Sundstrem-Brown sitting at the County Court at Bradford, Civil And Family Centre, Exchange Square, Drake Street, Bradford, BD1 1JA.
UPON reading the Claimant’s application notice
AND UPON consideration of the Claimant’s Article 8 right to a private and family life
AND UPON IT APPEARING that the case is likely to attract publicity and that revealing the Claimant’s identity ought to be prohibited
AND PURSUANT TO s11 Contempt of Court Act 1981 and CPR Rule 5.4A to 5.4D and CPR Rule 39.2(4)
IT IS ORDERED THAT:
- There be substituted for all purposes of this case, in place of references to the Claimant by name, and whether orally or in writing, reference to the letters AXA.
- To the extent necessary to protect the identity of the Claimant, any other references, whether to persons or places or otherwise, be adjusted appropriately, with permission to the parties to apply in default of agreement as to the manner of such adjustments.
- So far as the Claim Form, or any Judgment or Order, or any other document to which anyone might have access to pursuant to CPR Rule 5.4A – D at any time does not comply with the above, the Claimant’s solicitor has leave to file with the Court copies of such document adjusted so as to comply therein. Such copies are to be treated for all purposes as being in substitution for the relevant originals; and the originals are to be retained by the Court in a sealed envelope marked: “not to be opened without the permission of a Judge”.
- A non-party may not inspect or obtain any copy of any document from the court file without permission of a Judge. Any application for such permission must be made on notice to the Claimant (the Court will effect service). Such file is to be retained by the court and marked “PRIVATE”.
- A non-party may not obtain any copy statement of case or any other document from the court file unless it has been anonymised in accordance with this direction.
- Reporting restrictions apply as to the disclosing of any information that may lead to the subsequent identification of the parties.
- Any non-party affected by this order may apply on notice to set aside or vary this order.
- Costs in the case.
Dated 15 August 2025