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

Administrative CourtHigh CourtKing's Bench DivisionAnonymity Order

Case number: AC-2025-LON- 002546

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

5 June 2026

Before:

The Hon. Mrs Justice Foster DBE

Between:

The King
on the application of
LSW
(Claimant)

-v-

Secretary of State for the Home Department
(Defendant)

Anonymity and directions order

BY THE HON. Mrs Justice Foster

UPON the Claimant’s application for anonymity order pursuant to CPR Rule 39.2(4)

AND UPON CONSIDERING the Claimant’s application for urgent consideration, an injunction by way of interim relief and permission for judicial review

AND UPON READING the Claimant’s detailed Statement of Facts and Grounds and evidence in support including letters from the Defendant dated 17 April, 5 May and 1 June 2026

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT:-

  1. The application for interim relief is set down to be heard at 10.30a.m. on Thursday 11 June 2026 for one hour.
  2. Pursuant to CPR Rule 39.2(4), anonymity is granted in the terms of the Schedule appended to this draft order.
  3. The Claimant’s claim is fit for expedition.
  4. The requirement for an Acknowledgment of Service is dispensed with.
  5. The application for permission to apply for judicial review is adjourned to be listed as a rolled up hearing to be listed to be heard before the end of term July 2026 with a time estimate of a day. If permission is granted, the court will proceed immediately to determine the claim.
  6. The Defendant must, by 4pm Friday 3 July 2026 file and serve

(i) Detailed Grounds for contesting the claim or supporting it on
additional grounds and

(ii) any written evidence it wishes to rely upon

  1. Any evidence in reply from the Claimant must be filed and served, together with a copy of that evidence, within 5 days of the date on which the Defendant serves evidence pursuant to para 6 above.
  2. The parties must agree the contents of the hearing bundle. An electronic version of the bundle must be prepared and lodged, in accordance with the Administrative Court Judicial Review Guide Chapter 21 and the Guidance on the Administrative Court website, not less than 4 days before the date of the hearing. The parties must, if requested by the Court, lodge 2 hard-copy versions of the hearing bundle.
  3. The Claimant must file and serve a Skeleton Argument (maximum 25 pages), complying with CPR 54 PD para. 15 and the Administrative Court Judicial Review Guide paras 20.1 to 20.3, not less than 3 days before the date of the substantive hearing.
  4. The Defendant must file and serve a Skeleton Argument (maximum 25 pages), complying with CPR 54 PD para. 15 and the Administrative Court Judicial Review Guide paras 20.1 to 20.3, not less than 2 days before the date of the substantive hearing.
  5. The parties must agree the contents of a bundle containing the authorities to be referred to at the hearing. An electronic version of the bundle must be prepared in accordance with the Guidance on the Administrative Court website. The parties must, if requested by the Court, prepare a hard-copy version of the authorities bundle. The electronic version of the bundle and if requested, the hard copy version of the bundle, must be lodged with the Court not less than 2 days before the date of the substantive hearing.
  6. If either party considers that this time estimate in para 5 above should be varied, they must inform the court as soon as possible.
  7. CPR 2.11 (variation of timetable by written agreement between the parties) does not apply.
  8. Costs reserved.

    The Hon Mrs Justice Foster
    Dated this 5 day of June 2026