N5 -v- Secretary of State for the Home Department (anonymity order)

Special Immigration Appeals CommissionAnonymity Order

Appeal No: SC/010/2025

In the Special Immigration Appeals Commission

17 December 2025

Before:

Mr Justice Swift

Between:

N5

-v-

Secretary of State for the Home Department

Order

UPON the Applicant’s application for an anonymity order pursuant to paragraph 28 of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission Practice Note granted on 12 November 2025);

AND UPON the Applicant ’s application for an anonymity order pursuant to rule 39(5)(h) of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Procedure) Rules 2003 and for an order restraining publication pursuant to section 11 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 (‘the application’);

AND UPON the Applicant undertaking to keep the Commission and the Secretary of State informed of any matter which may affect the continued need for this order;

IT IS ORDERED THAT

  1. The Applicant is granted an extension of time as the initial anonymity order expired on 24 November 2025.
  2. The Applicant is granted anonymity in relation to the conduct of proceedings in the Commission and be anonymised by the cipher ‘N5.
  3. Nothing may be published which, directly, or indirectly, identifies him as an Applicant in these proceedings before the Commission.
  4. There shall be liberty to apply on 48 hours’ written notice to the Commission, to the Applicant, to the Secretary of State and to the Legal Representatives (as defined in the Practice Note).
  5. This order continues until the OPEN judgment has been handed down in this application, or further order in the meantime, unless the Applicant indicates to the Commission, as soon as the OPEN judgment is circulated in draft, that he intends to apply for it to continue after the OPEN judgment is handed down, and applies to the Commission, before that judgment is handed down, for directions for the determination of any such application.

BY THE COMMISSION