BAK -v- Milton Keynes Council (anonymity order)

Administrative CourtCivilHigh CourtKing's Bench DivisionAnonymity Order

Case number: AC-2025-LON-000886

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

In the matter of an application for judicial review

4 April 2025

Before:

Matthew Butt KC,
sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court

Between:

The King
on the application of
BAK

-v-

Milton Keynes Council

Order

On an application by the Claimant for an anonymity order

Following consideration of the documents lodged by the Claimant

ORDER BY MATTHEW BUTT KC SITTING AS A DEPUTY JUDGE OF THE HIGH COURT

  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 BAK.

(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 an asylum seeker, who claims to have arrived in the UK as an unaccompanied child. The claim relies on personal matters relating to the Claimant’s immigration status and destitution and there is no public interest in the Claimant’s identity in the context of this matter. The grant of anonymity is consistent with the protection in s.97(2) of the Children Act 1989, s.49 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 and the Presidential Guidance Note No.2 of 2022 for the First-Tier Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber for children. There are accordingly compelling reasons for the limited derogations from the principle of open justice in paragraph 1.

Signed: MATTHEW BUTT KC
Date: 4 APRIL 2025