CD -v- London Borough of Lewisham (anonymity order)
Administrative CourtCivilHigh CourtKing's Bench DivisionAnonymity Order
AC-2024-LON-002739
In the High Court of Justice
King’s Bench Division
Administrative Court
In the matter of an application for judicial review
18 November 2024
Before:
the Honourable Mr Justice Robin Knowles CBE
Between:
The King
on the application of
CD
-v-
London Borough of Lewisham
Order
Notification of the Judge’s decision on the application for permission to apply for judicial review (CPR 54.11, 54.12)
Following consideration of the documents lodged by the Claimant and the Acknowledgement(s) of service filed by the Defendant
ORDER by the Honourable Mr Justice Robin Knowles CBE
18 November 2024
- The application for permission to apply for judicial review is granted.
- The application is to be listed for 3 hours; the parties to provide a written time estimate within 7 days of service of this order if they disagree with this direction.
- Anonymity order granted: there shall be no disclosure of the Claimant’s name and those of her children or any details leading to her or her children’s identification. The Claimant shall be referred to as “CD”.
- Application granted to rely on second witness statement of Thea Grattidge dated 11/09/2024 and exhibits; letter from refuge dated 11/09/2024 and child protection plan review records dated 06/08/2024 and 21/08/2024
Case Management Directions
- The parties and their advisers are expected to cooperate to ensure this matter is dealt with efficiently and economically towards and at the hearing. In particular the parties’ advisers should seek to agree a short list of what is common ground and to reach an agreed formulation of the essential issues.
- The Defendant and any other person served with the Claim Form who wishes to contest the claim or support it on additional grounds shall, within 35 days of the date of service of this Order, file and serve (a) Detailed Grounds for contesting the claim or supporting it on additional grounds, and (b) any written evidence that is to be relied on. For the avoidance of doubt, a party who has filed and served Summary Grounds pursuant to CPR 54.8 may comply with (a) above by filing and serving a document which states that those Summary Grounds shall stand as the Detailed Grounds required by CPR 54.14.
- Any application by the Claimant to serve evidence in reply shall be filed and served within 21 days of the date on which the Defendant serves evidence pursuant to 2(b) above.
- The parties shall agree the contents of the hearing bundle and must file it with the Court not less than 4 weeks before the date of the hearing of the judicial review. An electronic version of the bundle shall be prepared and lodged in accordance with the Guidance on the Administrative Court website. The parties shall, if requested by the Court lodge 2 hard-copy versions of the hearing bundle.
- The Claimant must file and serve a Skeleton Argument not less than 21 days before the date of the hearing of the judicial review.
- The Defendant and any Interested Party must file and serve a Skeleton Argument not less than 14 days before the date of the hearing of the judicial review.
- The parties shall agree the contents of a bundle containing the authorities to be referred to at the hearing. An electronic version of the bundle shall be prepared in accordance with the Guidance on the Administrative Court website. The parties shall if requested by the Court, prepare a hard-copy version of the authorities bundle. The electronic version of the bundle and if requested, the hard copy version of the bundle, shall be lodged with the Court not less than 3 days before the date of the hearing of the judicial review.
Signed: Robin Knowles J, CBE
Date: 18/11/2024