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

Administrative CourtHigh CourtKing's Bench DivisionAnonymity Order

Claim number: AC-2025-LON-000472

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

16 May 2025

Before:

Clare Padley sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge

Between:

The King on the application of
AXT by their litigation friend

-v-

Secretary of State for the Home Department

and

Surrey County Council
(Interested party)

Order

On an application by the Claimant for an anonymity order

Following consideration of the documents lodged by the Claimant

ORDER BY CLARE PADLEY
(sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge)

  1. Anonymity:
    (a) Pursuant to CPR 39.2(4) and/or the Court’s inherent jurisdiction and/or s. 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998:
    (i) the Claimant’s name is to be withheld from the public and must not be disclosed in any proceedings in public; and
    (ii) the Claimant is to be referred to orally and in writing as AXT.
    (b) Pursuant to s. 11 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981, there must be no publication of the identity of the Claimant or of any matter likely to lead to the identification of the Claimant in any report of, or otherwise in connection with, these proceedings.
    (c) Pursuant to CPR 5.4C(4):
    (i) the parties must within 7 days file a redacted copy of any statement of case filed, omitting the name, address and any other information likely to lead to the identification of the Claimant;
    (ii) if any statement of case subsequently filed includes information likely to lead to the identification of the Claimant, a redacted copy omitting that information must be filed at the same time;
    (iii) unless the Court grants permission under CPR 5.4C(6), no non-party many obtain a copy of any unredacted statement of case.
    (d) Any person wishing to vary or discharge this Order must make an application, served on each party

Reasons

(1) Anonymity: The Claimant is a putative child refugee. The claim relies on sensitive information about their private and family life in which, as a putative child refugee, the Claimant has a reasonable expectation of privacy. There are accordingly compelling reasons for the limited derogations from the principle of open justice in paragraph 1.

Consent order

UPON the Interested Party having accepted the Claimant’s claimed age at the time that these proceedings were brought;

AND UPON the Interested Party, after this claim was lodged, proposing to undertake an age assessment of the Claimant by an Independent Social Worker;

AND UPON the Claimant agreeing to participate in the age assessment by an Independent Social Worker;

AND UPON the parties agreeing to settle.

BY CONSENT, it is ordered that:-
1. The Claimant has permission to withdraw the above numbered claim for judicial review.

2. There shall be no order as to costs.

3. There shall be a detailed assessment of the Claimant’s legally aided costs.