KT -v- Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and HMRC (anonymity order)

Administrative Appeals Chamber (Upper Tribunal)Anonymity Order

UT refs: UA-2025-001646-USTA
UA-2025-001910-CHB

In the Upper Tribunal
Administrative Appeals Chamber

From the First-tier Tribunal (Social Entitlement Chamber)
Leicester
SC314/21/00565 and SC314/21/00517
1 November 2024

1 May 2026

Before:

Stewart Wright
Judge of the Upper Tribunal

Between:

KT
(Appellant)

-v-

(1) Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
(2) His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs
(Respondents)

Anonymity order

NOTICE: Any breach of this order is liable to be treated as a contempt of court and may be punishable by imprisonment, fine or other sanctions under section 25 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007. The maximum punishment that may be imposed is a sentence of two years’ imprisonment or an unlimited fine.

ORDER

  1. It is ordered, under rule 14 of the Tribunal Procedure (Upper Tribunal Rules) 2008, that, without the permission of this Tribunal, no one shall disclose or publish the name, or any part of the address, of the appellant in these proceedings or publish or reveal any other information that would be likely to lead to the identification of the appellant.
  2. It is ordered that the appellant shall be known as KT (these are not her initials).
  3. Anyone who objects to this order may apply to the Upper Tribunal for it to be varied or set aside.
  4. A copy of this Order shall be published on the website of the Judiciary of England and Wales.

REASONS

  1. This anonymity order is made on the application of the appellant.
  2. The principle of open justice is of fundamental importance to the justice system. An aspect of open justice is that parties’ names are made public. Derogation from this principle requires justification. Particular regard must be given to the importance of the right to freedom of expression, including the right to publish reports of cases.
  3. In this case, I am satisfied that it is necessary to derogate from the open justice principle to the limited extent of not naming the appellant. The legal issue on which these error of law appeals to the Upper Tribunal may turn – whether the ‘domestic violence immigration concession’ that succeeded for the appellant in GA v SSWP [2024] UKUT 380 (AAC) should also apply to this appellant – do not turn on or require the appellant to be identified. That issue, however, only arises because the appellant has been the victim of a sustained campaign of domestic abuse which has affected her quite severely psychologically. Naming her in these proceedings would, I accept, cause her distress and anxiety which would very likely further affect her psychological well-being.
  4. The public interest in open justice and freedom of expression will still be served by any hearing of these appeals being held in public and by this order and the final decision in this case being published online.
  5. The letters KT have been chosen randomly and are not the appellant’s initials.

Authorised for issue by:

Stewart Wright,
Judge of the Upper Tribunal

On 1 May 2026