BOR -v- The Family Court sitting at Cardiff (anonymity order)

Claim number: AC-2025-CDF-000060

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

12 June 2025

Before:

The Honourable Mr Justice Eyre

Between:

The King on the application of
BOR

-v-

The Family Court sitting at Cardiff

and

Vale of Glamorgan Council

BGS
(Interested parties)

Order

The Honourable Mr Justice Eyre

UPON HEARING the Claimant in person and Christian Edwards of Counsel for the First Interested Party

IT IS ORDERED that:

  1. The Claimant’s application dated 1st May 2025 for reconsideration of the order made by HH Judge Harrison on 1st May 2025 is dismissed.
  2. The Family Court sitting at Cardiff is joined as Defendant.
  3. The Vale of Glamorgan Council is removed as a defendant but is joined as First Interested Party.
  4. Service on the Defendant is dispensed with.
  5. The First Interested Party shall by 4.00pm on 13th June 2025 file and serve such further authority as it wishes to rely upon together with brief submissions as to the relevance of the same.
  6. The Claimant shall file and serve any response to the said authority and submissions by 4.00pm on 20th June 2025.
  7. The papers shall be referred to Eyre J for the determination of permission on the earlier of (a) the receipt of the Claimant’s response pursuant to paragraph 6 hereof or (b) 23rd June 2025.
  8. Pursuant to CPR 39.2(4):
    a) The name of the Claimant’s child is to be withheld from the public and must not be disclosed in any proceedings in public; and
    b) Any information tending to identify the Claimant’s child is to be withheld from the public and must not be disclosed in any proceedings in public,
    c) The Claimant’s child is to be referred to orally and in writing as BOG, the Claimant is to be referred to as BOR and the Second Interested Party as BGS.
    d) Pursuant to s. 11 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981, there must be no publication of the identity of the Claimant’s child or of any matter likely to lead to the identification of the Claimant’s child in any report of, or otherwise in connection with, these proceedings.
  9. Notwithstanding paragraph 8 of this Order, in any subsequent civil or family proceedings involving the Claimant and Defendant (including any application for a civil restraint order), either party may identify the Claimant as having brought the present claim.
  10. Pursuant to CPR 5.4C(4):
    a) The First Defendant must within 7 days file a redacted copy of any statement of case, witness statement, or other document filed, omitting the name, address and any other information likely to lead to the identification of the Claimant;
    b) If any document 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;
    c) Unless the Court grants permission under CPR 5.4C(6), no non-party many obtain a copy of any unredacted statement of case.
  11. Any person wishing to vary or discharge paragraphs 8 – 10 of this Order must make an application, served on every party.
  12.  The Claimant shall pay the First Interested Party’s costs of this hearing summarily assessed in the sum of £1,100. The said sum shall be payable by 4.00pm on 23rd July 2025.