HAI -v- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (anonymity)

Anonymity Order

Claim No: QB-2011-000214

 

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION

16 November 2020

Before:
HIS HONOUR JUDGE COTTER QC, Sitting as a Judge of the High Court

Between:
HAI (A child/protected party proceeding by way of her father and Litigation Friend HAS)
-v-
OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

BEFORE His Honour Judge Cotter QC sitting as a Judge of the High Court, Queen’s Bench Division, at the Royal Courts of Justice on the 16th November 2020
UPON HEARING Simeon Maskrey one of Her Majesty’s Counsel, on behalf of the Claimant and John de Bono one of Her Majesty’s Counsel, on behalf of the Defendant
AND UPON IT BEING RECORDED THAT NO REPRESENTIONS WERE MADE BY A MEMBER OF THE PRESS
AND UPON IT APPEARING the case is likely to attract publicity and that revealing the identity of the Claimant and the Defendant is likely to unfairly damage the interests of the Claimant and that, accordingly, publication of details revealing the Claimant’s identity and the Defendant’s identity ought to be prohibited.
AND PURSUANT to s11 Contempt of Court Act 1981, s.6 of the Human Rights Act 1998 and CPR Rule 5.4A to 5.4D and CPR Rule 39.2
IT IS ORDERED that

  1. There shall be no publication of the Claimant’s name and address, the Litigation Friend’s name and address, or any information which may tend to identify the Claimant or the Litigation Friend.

 

  1. There be substituted for all purposes of this case, in place of references to the Claimant by name, and whether orally or in writing, references to the letters HAI. Likewise, the Litigation Friend shall be referred to as HAS.

 

  1. A non-party may not inspect or obtain the copy of any document from the court file without the permission of a Queen’s Bench Master. Any application for such permission must be made on notice to the Claimant.

 

  1. A non-party may not obtain any copy statement of case or document from the court file unless it has been anonymised in accordance with this direction and there has been redacted any information which might identify the Claimant or the Litigation Friend.

 

  1. Permission to apply.