DD -v- Ministry of Justice and HM Courts and Tribunals Service (anonymity order)
Claim number: KB-2026-002538
In the High Court of Justice
King’s Bench Division
17 July 2026
Before:
Senior Master Cook
Between:
DD
(Claimant)
-v-
(1) Ministry of Justice
(2) HM Courts and Tribunals Service
(Defendants)
Order
UPON the Court having issued a claim form in this matter on 16 July 2026
AND UPON the Claimant having filed a Notice of Application dated 16 July 2026 seeking (i) a stay and discharge of an Arrest Warrant (ii) an Anonymity Order (iii) emergency cross case data preservation and disclosure (iv) Reasonable adjustments (v) an inquiry into 16 day filing suppression.
AND UPON the Claimant having issued Claim KB-2026-001885 against the same Defendants in which claims of an overlapping and similar nature are made.
AND UPON considering the Orders of Mrs Justice Heather Williams dated 3 June 2026 in both KB-2026-001885 and KB-2026-001885 and the reasoning set out in them.
AND UPON considering the Extended Civil Restraint order made in the Family Court at Bristol by HHJ Cope on 19 August 2025.
AND UPON the court acting on its own initiative pursuant to Civil Procedure Rules 3.3 (4) and 3.4 (2)
AND UPON IT APPEARING TO THE COURT that the claim form and the voluminous accompanying documents disclose no reasonable grounds for bringing the claim and/or are an abuse of the court’s process or is otherwise likely to obstruct the just disposal of proceedings
IT IS ORDERED that
- That until further order the Claimant in this case shall be referred to as DD and his name shall be withheld from the public and must not be disclosed in any proceedings in open court.
- Pursuant to section 11 Contempt of Court Act 1981 and CPR Rule 39.2(4), there must be no publication of the identity of the Claimants or any matter likely to lead to the identification of the Claimants in any report of, or otherwise in connection with, these proceedings.
- Pursuant to CPR 5.4C:
i) The parties must, when filing any statement of case, also file a redacted copy of the statement of case omitting the name, address and any other information which could lead to the identification of the Claimant;
ii) Unless the Court grants permission, no non-party may obtain an unredacted copy of any statement of case or any other document which would identify the Claimants, and any application for permission must be made on notice to the parties. - Any person wishing to apply to vary or discharge paragraphs 1 – 3 of this Order must make an application to the Court, served on each party.
- The remainder of the application be dismissed and declared to be totally with merit.
- The claim be struck out as being totally without merit.
- Because this Order has been made by the Court of its own initiative, the Claimant has the right to apply to have the order set aside, varied or stayed. If the Claimant makes such an application, he must send or deliver the application notice with any supporting evidence to the court (together with any appropriate fee) to arrive within 7 days of service of this Order.
- The Court must serve this order and a copy of the claim form on the parties. The sending of copies of the claim is for the purpose of information only and shall not amount to service or release for service.
REASONS
i. For the reasons set out by Heather Williams J in her previous orders identifying the Claimant in this claim could well lead to the identification of the child claimants in the underlying Family proceedings and other claims currently pending in this Division. For that reason alone the court will grant an anonymity order.
ii. The Claimant has filed voluminous quantities of material in which wide spread and allegations concerning the conduct of Family proceedings to which he and his children were a party are made. The Claimant also makes allegations about the court’s handling of his two other claims and about the conduct of the judge managing them. As observed both of the existing claims make similar and overlapping allegations to the Claimants allegation’s in this claim and which are set out over hundreds of pages of exhibits and other material filed with the court.
iii. In the circumstances the statement of case is vague and incoherent and the Claimant has failed to comply with the rules requiring him to provide a concise and clear statement of the facts upon which he relies. As such it is impossible for a Defendant to respond to.
iv. The Claimant is also challenging the conduct and result of Family proceedings involving his children. It is instructive to note that a General Civil Restraint order has been made in these proceedings. The Court’s concerns are further raised by the Claimant’s own summary contained within the documentation presented the court:
“This summary is provided to assist the court in understanding the interconnected nature of the D.A.D. multi pillar remedial litigation architecture. The Claimant is not a vexatious litigant filing multiple unconnected claims. He is a disabled father whose children were abducted in July 2024, who has been separated from his children for over 18 months, who has been subjected to wrongful arrest, who was hospitalised strapped to a heart monitor and unable to attend the Family Court final hearing that imposed three years of no child contact, and who has been systematically blocked from accessing the courts through administrative attrition at every level. The D.A.D. architecture is a multi-pillared remedial Group Litigation framework, delivered through a combination of Judicial Reviews and large Group Litigation Orders. Each Pillar addresses a specific failure by a different state institution. No single body is excluded — the architecture will not stop until every single institution is held accountable and legally bound to meet their obligations under the Equality Act 2010. Together, the Pillars form a complete picture of institutional collapse that has caused, and continues to cause, direct harm to the Claimant’s life, liberty, and family relationships — and to the lives of fathers, children, and families across the nation. The Claimant has no criminal convictions. He walks past his children’s school almost every single day and does not cause a single scene or problem. Instead, he has dedicated his entire life to learning the law so that he can help fix these dangerously broken systems — for himself, his family, and all future generations. He works over 90 hours a week on this litigation because the system is causing unmanageable harm and he is currently at risk to his life as a direct result of it. This litigation arises from the Claimant’s long-term history of humanitarian work. It is urgently required and restorative in nature. It is not vexatious — it is the inevitable consequence of every state institution failing to meet its legal obligations and every oversight body failing to help My children were abducted in July 2024. I still have not managed to get the Police or the Courts to obtain the essential API passenger data which has probably now expired. All of this harm is the result of systemic inequality and mistreatment of men and fathers due to the systemic failures by every single institution — the Police, the Courts, CAFCASS, Social Services, the MOJ and more — to meet their legal obligations under the Equality Act 2010. My family is the discovery harm that has exposed the massive systemic liability and the urgent need for remedies. Three fathers’ lives are being lost to suicide every single day in England and Wales due to loss of child contact. 76% of young males in prison have an absent father. All I am trying to do is protect my children and challenge the systemic inequalities that have caused me and my family so much harm. I am trying to tackle the male suicide epidemic and the pipeline to prison. I am trying to build a future of genuine and lasting equality, the cornerstone of which must be genuine equality within the Justice system, Courts, and Policing. That is why I am working over 90 hours a week. I have to walk past my children’s school almost every single day and yet I don’t cause a single scene or problem. I have instead dedicated my entire life to learning the law so that I can help fix these dangerously broken systems and help everyone — me, my family, and all future generations — because currently the system is so broken and causing unmanageable harm. I know this because I am currently at risk to my life by the direct result of it, and my family has been unlawfully torn apart. I have no criminal convictions. I was even in hospital strapped to a heart monitor, unable to even attend the unlawful Family Court final judgment stating three years of no child contact at all. There are still more cases for me to file — against CAFCASS, against the IOPC for constantly rejecting my requests for help and redirecting me back to the conflicted force, against Social Services, against the JCIO. This is a multi-pillared remedial Group Litigation architecture to address all the systemic failings that my personal case and my children have exposed. It will not stop until every single body is held accountable and legally bound to meet their legal obligations under the Equality Act, and to face the huge state liabilities for the lives destroyed, fathers killed, male victims of domestic abuse disbelieved or ignored, and no oversight body even helping. All I have faced is obstruction and further harm. This must all be well chronologised and presented and understood by every judge who is presented with any of the ever-increasing Pillars of the D.A.D. Group Litigation architecture — remedial litigation through a combination of Judicial Reviews and large Group Litigations. None of this is vexatious. It comes from my long-term history of humanitarian work and it is all urgently required and restorative.”
v. In the circumstances these proceedings appear both vexatious and an attempt to re-litigate matters which have been decided against the Claimant.