O5 -v- Secretary of State for the Home Department (anonymity order)

CivilSpecial Immigration Appeals CommissionAnonymity Order

Case number: SC/224/2024

In the Special Immigration Appeals Commission

In the matter of an application by the Appellant for
continuation of an anonymity order

6 January 2024

Between:

O5

-v-

Secretary of State for the Home Department (anonymity order)

Order

ON the Appellant’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’)

ON the Legal Representatives’ having been notified of the application on 20 December 2024 by email;

ON considering the documents consisting of an Explanatory Note, Witness Statement of Alexandra Rowe and Legal Submissions (‘the documents’) lodged in accordance with paragraph 28 of the Commission’s Practice Note on Anonymity Orders and Related Measures (‘the Practice Note’)

AND ON the Appellant 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 may be granted anonymity in relation to the conduct of proceedings in the Commission and be known in these proceedings as O5.
  2. Nothing may be published which, directly or indirectly, identifies O5 as an Appellant in these proceedings before the Commission.
  3. There 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).
  4. This order continues until the OPEN judgment has been handed down in this appeal, 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

Dated this 6th day of January 2025