CGT -v- West Sussex County Council (anonymity order)

Administrative CourtHigh CourtKing's Bench DivisionAnonymity Order

Claim number: AC-2024-LON-003038

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

In the matter of an application for judicial review

12 January 2026

Before:

His Honour Judge Auerbach
sitting as a Judge of the High Court

Between:

The King
on the application of
CGT
(by his litigation friend, SGT)

-v-

West Sussex County Council

Order

BEFORE His Honour Judge Auerbach sitting as a Judge of the High Court in chambers at the Royal Courts of Justice on 12 January 2026

UPON considering the Claimant’s application, by his Litigation Friend, for an anonymity
order dated 2 January 2026

AND UPON the Court considering, having regard to the Claimant’s status as a protected party, and it appearing that the subject matter of this application engages his Article 8 rights, that the derogation by this order from the principle of open justice is necessary and proportionate

AND UPON the Court considering that, while the application was for an order to be made at the hearing on 14 January 2026, it is expedient for it to be made in advance, so that the Claimant and the Litigation Friend are anonymised in the Court’s list, on the basis that there is liberty to apply to revisit this Order at the hearing itself

IT IS ORDERED that:

  1. Pursuant to CPR, r.39.2(4) and/or the Court’s inherent jurisdiction and/or s.6 of the Human Rights Act 1998:

a. The names of the Claimant, the Litigation Friend and the Claimant’s deceased mother are to be withheld from the public and must not be disclosed in any proceedings in public; and,

b. They are to be referred to orally and in writing as follows:

i. The Claimant shall be referred to as CGT;
ii. The Litigation Friend shall be referred to as SGT;
iii. The Claimant’s deceased mother shall be referred to as RGT.

  1. Pursuant to s.11 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981, there must be no publication of the identity of the Claimant, the Litigation Friend or the Claimant’s deceased mother or of any matter likely to lead to their identification in any report of, or otherwise in connection with, these proceedings.
  2. Pursuant to CPR, r.5.4C(4):

    a. The parties must within 14 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, the Litigation Friend or the Claimant’s deceased mother.

    b. Unless the Court grants permission under CPR, r.5.4C(6), no non-party may obtain a copy of any unredacted statement of case.
  3. Any party or other interested person wishing to apply to vary or discharge this order must make an application

    (a) At the hearing on 14 January 2026; or

    (b) Otherwise on notice to the parties.
    1. Costs reserved.