KXS -v- University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (anonymity order)

CivilHigh CourtKing's Bench DivisionAnonymity Order

Claim number: QB-2022-LIV-000017

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

25 February 2025

Before:

His Honour Judge Wood KC

Between:

KXS
(Litigation Friend LXW)

-v-

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust

Anonymity order

Before HHJ Wood KC sitting as a Section 9 Judge of the High Court, King’s Bench Division, at Liverpool District Registry at Liverpool Civil and Family Court, 35 Vernon Street, Liverpool L2 2BX on 25 February 2025

UPON HEARING Mr Philip MD Grundy, Counsel on behalf of the Claimant and Mr David Locke, Solicitor Advocate on behalf of the Defendant

AND UPON an approval of settlement

AND UPON the Court being satisfied, pursuant to CPR 39.2(4) that an order in the terms below is necessary in order to protect the interests of the Claimant and there is no sufficient countervailing public interest in disclosure;

IT IS ORDERED THAT:
pursuant to section 11 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981, section 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998, CPR 5.4B to D and CPR 39.2, as follows:-

  1. The Claimant and her Litigation Friend shall be referred to in these proceedings as KXS and LXW respectively.
  2. There shall not be disclosed in any report of the proceedings the name, address or picture of the Claimant, or of the Claimant’s Litigation Friend, or any member of her family, nor any information which is liable to or might lead to the identification of Claimant, her litigation friend, or any member of her family.
  3. Persons other than the parties to these proceedings shall be prohibited from inspecting or obtaining copies of any statement of case, judgment or order, or any other document from the court records unless the same have been anonymized, as set out above, the addresses of the Claimant and her Litigation Friend have been removed, and there has been redacted any information which might identify the Claimant or her Litigation Friend, without further order of the Court. Any application for permission to inspect or obtain a non-anonymised version must be made on notice to the Claimant in accordance with CPR 5.4C(6). The court will effect service.
  4. Prior to any supply of any document from the court records to a non-party, the names of the Claimant and her Litigation Friend are to be anonymised in any such document by the substitution of initials as set out above, the deletion of their home addresses, and the redaction of any information which might identify the Claimant or her Litigation Friend.
  5. Any person affected by any of the restrictions in this Order may apply to the Court to vary or discharge this Order (or so much of it as affects that person), but written notice of any such application and the evidence relied upon must first be given to the Claimant’s solicitors. The court will effect service.
  6. Claimant to serve sealed order.
  7. 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