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

Administrative CourtHigh CourtKing's Bench DivisionAnonymity Order

Claim number: AC-2025-LON-000710

In the High Court of Justice
King’s Bench Division    

Administrative Court 
In the matter of an application for judicial review

13 March 2025

Before:

Mr Justice Johnson

Between:

The King (on the application of)

BAR

-v-

Secretary of State for the Home Department

ORDER

On an application by the claimant for urgent consideration and interim relief 

Following consideration of the documents lodged by the claimant

Expedition

    1. The time for filing an Acknowledgement of Service and Summary  Grounds is abridged: the defendant shall file and serve an  Acknowledgement of Service and Summary Grounds by 4pm on 21  March 2025, together with any representations that the defendant  wishes to make in respect of the application for interim relief.  Thereafter, the papers shall be placed before a judge as soon as  reasonably practicable on or after 24 March 2025 to consider the  application for permission to claim judicial review and the application for interim relief.  

    Anonymity 

    2. The Claimant shall hereinafter be referred to in these proceedings as BAR (“the cipher”). 

    3. The claimant’s name is to be withheld from the public and must not be disclosed in any proceedings in open court.  

    4. There is to be substituted for all purposes in these proceedings in place of references to the claimant by name, and whether orally or in writing, references to the cipher. 

    5. Pursuant to s.11 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. 

    6. Pursuant to CPR 5.4C(4):

    (a) The parties must, when filing any statement of case, also file a  redacted copy of that statement of case omitting the name, address and any other information which could lead to the identification of the  claimant. 

    (b) Unless the court grants permission under CPR 5.4(C)(6), no non- party may obtain an unredacted copy of any statement of case. 

    Right to apply to set aside or vary this order

    7. This order was made on the papers on the claimant’s application (but  not in the terms sought by the claimant) and without representations  from the defendant. The parties each have liberty to apply on notice to vary or to set aside or discharge this order.  

    Costs

    8. Costs reserved.

    Reasons

    The real urgency in this case/application when it was originally filed was the interview that was scheduled for today. The applicant had indicated that, so far as the balance of the claim was concerned, he was content to allow the defendant further time to respond. 

    The interview has now been cancelled. That removes the immediate urgency. I can understand why the claimant wished to proceed with the application for interim relief. However, I consider that the better course is to allow the defendant time to respond to both the claim and the application for interim relief, but within a slightly compressed timescale, and for the questions of permission and interim relief then to be considered at the same time.