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

Administrative CourtHigh CourtKing's Bench DivisionAnonymity Order

Case number: AC-2025-LON-003754

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

In the matter of an application for judicial review

8 May 2026

Before:

Tom Little KC,
sitting as a Judge of the High Court

Between:

The King
on the application of
BJI

-v-

Secretary of State for the Home Department

Order

On an application by the Claimant for anonymity.

ORDER BY TOM LITTLE KC (sitting as a 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 in this claim; and

(ii) the Claimant is to be referred to orally and in writing as BJI.

(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) Unless the Court grants permission under CPR 5.4C(6), no non-party may obtain a copy of any 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 alleges that she is the victim of modern slavery. The claim was concerned with the decision to apply a public order disqualification as a result of the Claimant’s conviction for burglary thereby depriving her of the benefits that would otherwise be available to person who has been made the subject of a reasonable grounds decision in relation to modern slavery. The Defendant has agreed to remake the decision and so the judicial review claim is now academic but the underlying reasons why an anonymity would be granted in this type of case remain. Hence I am making this order before approving the consent order. In doing so I have considered the importance of the open justice principle but also the Article 8 rights of the Claimant. On the facts of this case that balance weighs in favour of the making of the anonymity order.

Signed: Tom Little KC

Date: 8th May 2026