FRB -v- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (anonymity order)

High CourtKing's Bench DivisionAnonymity Order

Claim number KB-2024-MAN-000129

In the High Court of Justice
King’s Bench Division
Manchester District Registry

25 November 2025

Before:

Her Honour Judge Claire Evans,
sitting as a Judge of the High Court

Between:

FRB
(A protected party, by his mother and litigation friend, FAY)

-v-

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Anonymity order

WARNING: you must comply with the terms imposed upon you by this Order: otherwise, your case is liable to be struck out or some other sanction imposed. If you cannot comply you are expected to make a formal application to the Court before any deadline imposed upon you expires.

BEFORE Her Honour Judge Claire Evans sitting as a Judge of the High Court at the Manchester District Registry of the High Court on 25th November 2025

Upon it being recorded that
(a) An anonymity order was made in this case by His Honour Judge Bird on 27th February 2025
(b) By order of 25th November 2025 the litigation friend FDB has been replaced by the Claimant’s mother, FAY

WHEREAS for the purposes of this order:

(1) ‘Publication’ includes any speech, writing, broadcast, or other communication in whatever form (including internet and social media), which is addressed to the public at large or any section of the public.
(2) Publication for the purpose of this Order includes any further publication (as defined in subparagraph (i) above) from the date of this Order, even if such information has derived from a previous stage or stages of these proceedings.

IT IS ORDERED THAT:

  1. Pursuant to CPR Rule 39.2(4), there shall not be disclosed in any report of these proceedings or other publication the name or address of the Claimant, the Claimant’s past or current Litigation Friends or other immediate family members, or any details (including other names, addresses, or a specific combination of facts) that could lead to the identification of the Claimant in these proceedings. The Claimant and the past and current Litigation Friends shall be referred to as set out at paragraph 3 of this Order.
  2. In any judgment or report of these proceedings, or other publication (by whatever medium) in relation thereto:
    (i) The Claimant shall be referred to as “FRB”
    (ii) The past Litigation Friend shall be referred to as “FDB”
    (iii) The current Litigation Friend shall be referred to as “FAY”
    (iv) Any other details which, on their own or together with other information publicly available, may lead to the identification of the Claimant (including any names of other immediate family members or their addresses) shall be redacted before publication.
  3. Pursuant to CPR Rules 5.4C and 5.4D:
    (i) A person who is not a party to the proceedings may not obtain a copy of a statement of case, judgment or order from the Court records unless the statement of case, judgment or order has been anonymised in accordance with subparagraphs 3(i) to (iii) above.
    (ii) If a person who is not a party to the proceedings applies (pursuant to CPR r.5.4C(1B) or (2)) for permission to inspect or obtain a copy of any other document or communication, such application shall be on at least 7 days’ notice to the Claimant’s solicitor, trustee or deputy.
  4. The Court file shall be clearly marked with the words “An anonymity order was made in this case on 27 February 2025 and a further order made on 25th November 2025, and any application by a non-party to inspect or obtain a copy document from this file must be dealt with in accordance with the terms of those Orders.”
  5. Any interested party, whether or not a party to the proceedings, may apply to the Court to vary or discharge this Order, provided that any such application is made on 7 days’ notice to the Claimant’s solicitor, trustee or deputy.
  6. Pursuant to the ‘Practice Guidance: Publication of Privacy and Anonymity Orders’ issued by the Master of the Rolls dated 16 April 2019 a copy of this Order shall be published on the Judicial Website of the High Court of Justice (www.judiciary.uk). For that purpose, a court officer will send a copy of the order by email to the Judicial Office at judicialwebupdates@judiciary.uk.
  7. The provisions of this Order shall not apply:-
    (i) To communications between the Court Funds Office and the anonymised party, his Deputy or Litigation Friend in relation to the payment of money into the Court Funds Office for the benefit of the anonymised party or the investment or treatment of payment out of such money.
    (ii) To communications between the Court Funds office and / or the anonymised party, his Deputy or Litigation Friend and any financial institution concerned as to the receipt or investment of such money; or
    (iii) To records kept by the Court Funds Office or the anonymised party, his Deputy or Litigation Friend or any such financial institution in relation to such money.
    (iv) Retention by all parties to the claim, their representatives, and their advisers of their unredacted files for the purposes of their continuing functions and obligations in relation to the proceedings.
    (v) Communications between the Defendant(s), their insurers, or their successors in title and their legal and professional advisers, reinsurers, HM Revenue and Customs (or its successor), the Compensation Recovery Unit or any other person required by law.
    (vi) Communications between the anonymised party’s representatives and advisers in managing that party’s affairs.
    (vii) Communications for the purpose of obtaining medical care, advice or treatment for the anonymised party.
    (viii) Communications by or on behalf of a paying party for the purposes of ascertaining whether the anonymised party is alive, so entitled to continuing periodical payments.
  8. The costs of obtaining this order be costs in the case

Dated this 25th day of November 2025