KXW -v- The Commissioner of the Police for the Metropolis (anonymity order)

County CourtAnonymity Order

Claim number: L04CL430

In the County Court at Central London

2 May 2025

Before:

District Judge Greenidge

Between:

KXW
(a child, by his mother and Litigation Friend, CXW)

-v-

The Commissioner of the Police for the Metropolis

Anonymity order

Before District Judge Greenidge sitting at the County Court at Central London, Thomas More Building, Royal Courts Of Justice, Strand, London, WC2A 2LL.

UPON reading the Claimant’s application dated 5 December 2024

AND UPON consideration of the Claimant’s Article 8 rights to respect for private and family life and the Article 10 right to freedom of expression

AND UPON IT APPEARING that non-disclosure of the identity of the Claimant is necessary in order to protect the interests of the Claimant

AND PURSUANT to section II of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 and rules 39.2(4), 5.4C and 5.4D of the Civil Procedure Rules, and the inherent jurisdiction of the Court

WITHOUT A HEARING IT IS ORDERED THAT

  1. The identity of the Claimant and of his litigation friend be not disclosed.
  2. The Claimant and his litigation friend be described in all statements of case and other documents to be filed or served in the proceedings and in any judgment or order in the proceedings and in any report of the proceedings by the press or otherwise as “KXW” and “CXW”.
  3. The address of the Claimant and of the litigation friend be stated in all statements of case and other documents to be filed or served in the proceedings as the address of the Claimant’s solicitors.
  4. In so far as necessary, any statement of case or other document disclosing the Claimant’s name or address or the name or address of the litigation friend already filed in the proceedings be replaced by a document describing such name or address in anonymised form as above.
  5. The original of any such document disclosing the name or address of the Claimant or of the litigation friend is to be placed on the Court file in a sealed envelope marked “not to be opened without the permission of a District Judge”.
  6. A non-party may not inspect or obtain a copy of any document on or from the Court file (other than this order duly anonymised as directed) without the permission of a Master or District Judge. Any application for such permission must be made on notice to the Claimant, and the Court will effect service. The file is to be retained by the Court and marked “Anonymised”.
  7. Reporting restrictions apply as to the disclosing of any information that may lead to the subsequent identification of the Claimant or litigation friend. The publication of the name and address of the Claimant or of any member of the Claimant’s immediate family or the name and address of the litigation friend is prohibited.
  8. The provisions of this Order shall not apply:
    a. To communications between the Court Funds Office and the anonymised party 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;
    b. To communications between the Court Funds Office and/or the anonymised party or Litigation Friend and any financial institution concerned as to the receipt or investment of such money; or
    c. To records kept by the Court Funds Office or the anonymised party or Litigation Friend or any such financial institution in relation to such money.
  9. The Court file shall be clearly marked with the words “An anonymity order was made in this case on 16 April 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 that Order.”
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Costs in the case. Dated 16 April 2025