LM -v- Secretary of State for the Home Department (anonymity order)

Administrative CourtHigh CourtKing's Bench DivisionAnonymity Order

Case number: AC-2024-LON-001682

In the High Court of Justice
King’s Bench Division
Administrative Court

In the matter of an application for judicial review

16 October 2025

Before:

Benjamin Douglas-Jones KC,
sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court

Between:

The King
on the application of
LM

-v-

Secretary of State for the Home Department

Order

Following consideration of the agreed draft consent order attached as the Annex to this Order;

Following the Court having had sight of the parties’ agreement to the amendment in writing;

And following the Court being satisfied that it is appropriate to amend the Consent Order filed by the parties on 8 April 2025

ORDER BY BENJAMIN DOUGLAS-JONES KC, SITTING AS A DEPUTY JUDGE OF THE HIGH COURT

  1. Anonymity:

(a) Pursuant to CPR 39.2(4) and/or the Court’s inherent jurisdiction and/or s. 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998:

(i) the Claimant’s name is to be withheld from the public and must not be disclosed in any proceedings in public; and

(ii) the Claimant is to be referred to orally and in writing as LM.

(b) Pursuant to s. 11 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981, there must be no publication of the identity of the Claimant or of any matter likely to lead to the identification of the Claimant in any report of, or otherwise in connection with, these proceedings.

(c) Pursuant to CPR 5.4C(4):

(i) the parties must within 7 days file a redacted copy of any statement of case filed, omitting the name, address and any other information likely to lead to the identification of the Claimant;

(ii) if any statement of case subsequently filed includes information likely to lead to the identification of the Claimant, a redacted copy omitting that information must be filed at the same time;

(iii) unless the Court grants permission under CPR 5.4C(6), no non-party many obtain a copy of any unredacted statement of case.

(d) Any person wishing to vary or discharge this Order must make an application, served on each party.

  1. The Claimant does have leave to withdraw the above-numbered claim for
    judicial review.
  2. The Defendant does pay the Claimant’s reasonable costs, to be assessed if not agreed.
  3. Liberty to apply concerning the terms of § 1 of this order.

REASONS

  1. The Claimant seeks an anonymity order in the terms of the attached draft consent order (“the draft order”). The Claimant is an asylum seeker. There is evidence that naming the Claimant and/or members of her family will increase the risk they would face if returned to their country of origin. The Claim relies on personal religious information in which the Claimant has a reasonable expectation of privacy. I am satisfied there are accordingly compelling reasons for the limited derogations from the principle of open justice in paragraph 1.
  2. I am asked to approve the draft order. I decline to do so in the terms proposed as the protections afforded through § 1.(a)(i), (b) and (c) are absent.
  3. On the basis that I am amending the terms of a draft consent order, I am prepared to give liberty to apply in respect of § 1.

Signed: Benjamin Douglas-Jones KC
Date: 16-10-25