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

Administrative CourtHigh CourtKing's Bench DivisionAnonymity Order

Case number: AC-2026-LON-000671

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

In the matter of an application for judicial review

10 July 2026

Before:

Clare Padley,
sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court

Between:

The King
on the application of
OXP
(a child, by his litigation friend, OXS)
(Claimant)

-v-

Secretary of State for the Home Department
(Defendant)

Order

Following consideration of the documents lodged by the Claimant in his application for judicial review and on the court’s own motion.

ORDER BY CLARE PADLEY 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 OXP.

(iii) The Claimant’s mother and litigation friend is to be referred to orally and in writing as OXS.

(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.

REASONS

(1) Anonymity: The Claimant is a child and the claim relates to his citizenship. There are accordingly compelling reasons for the limited derogations from the principle of open justice in paragraph 1. Although no application for anonymity has been made by his mother who is acting as his litigation friend and is a litigant in person, the court has decided to make an order of its own motion.

Signed: Clare Padley
Date: 09/07/26