CMH -v- Peterborough City Council (anonymity order)

Administrative CourtHigh CourtKing's Bench DivisionAnonymity Order

Amended pursuant to CPR 40.12

Case number: AC-2025-LON-003686

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

In the matter of an application for judicial review

24 October 2025

Before:

The Honourable Mr Justice Foxton

Between:

The King
on the application of
CMH
(by her litigation friend, CWN)

-v-

Peterborough City Council

Order

On an application by the Claimant for (1) an anonymity order; (2) an interim order requiring the Defendant to arrange immediate interim education.

Following consideration of the documents lodged by the Claimant

ORDER by the Honourable Mr Justice Foxton

  1. Until further order:

a. Pursuant to CPR 39.2 there shall be substituted for all purposes in these proceedings including on the Court’s Register of Claims and whether orally on in witing, in place of references the Claimant the letters “CMH” and in place of references to the Claimant’s litigation friend. the letters “CWN”.

b. Pursuant to CPR 5.4C((4)(c), a person who is not party to these proceedings may obtain a copy of a statement of case, judgment or order from the court records only if it has been anonymised such that the Claimant is referred to in those documents only by the letters “CMH”” and her litigation friend only by reference to the letters “CWN” and any reference to their names has been deleted from those documents.

c. Any person has liberty on three days’ written notice to the parties to apply to vary or discharge this paragraph.

  1. The Defendant shall file its response to the Claimant’s interim relief application within 7 days.
  2. The parties must then seek directions for a hearing of the interim relief application.
  3. Costs reserved.

Reasons

  1. As the Claimant is a minor, I am satisfied that an anonymity order is appropriate.
  2. The Claimant seeks urgent mandatory relief requiring the Defendant to make immediate arrangements for interim tuition or placement, with the application for interim relief to be heard within 3 days, and the interim arrangements to be put in place within 5 days of the hearing.
  3. The cause of the urgency is said to be the cancellation of a meeting on 25 October 2025 at short notice, it being accepted that prior to that, there had been good faith engagement.
  4. The cancellation of a meeting, even against the prior background going back to mid-2024, does not justify the degree of urgency sought.
  5. Accordingly I have ordered the Defendant to respond within 7 days, and the application for interim relief can then be renewed.

Signed: Mr Justice Foxton