OXR -v- Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust (anonymity order)

High CourtKing's Bench DivisionAnonymity Order

Claim number: KB-2025-002544

In the High Court of Justice
King’s Bench Division

24 October 2025

Before:

Master Armstrong

Between:

OXR
(A child, by his mother and litigation friend, JXF)

-v-

Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust

Anonymity order

WHEREAS the Defendant has admitted liability in the terms set out in the Letter of Response dated 28 November 2024 and duplicated in the Particulars of Claim dated 15 May 2025.

AND WHEREAS in an Order dated 31 October 2025 Judgement was entered in the Claimant’s favour.

AND WHEREAS the Claimant is a protected party and brings the Claim by his mother and Litigation Friend, JXF.

UPON READING an application notice by the Claimant dated 22 July 2025

AND UPON consideration of the Claimant’s Article 8 right to respect for private and family life and the Article 10 right to freedom of expression.

AND UPON IT APPEARING that non-disclosure of the identity of the Claimant is necessary in order to protect the interests of the Claimant.

AND PURSUANT to rule 39.2(4) of the Civil Procedure Rules and section II of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 and rules 5.4C and 5.4D of the Civil Procedure Rules.

WHEREAS for the purposes of this Order:

  1. ‘Publication includes any speech, writing, broadcast, or other communication in whatever form (including internet and social media), which is addressed to the public at large or any section of the public.
  2. Publication for the purpose of this Order includes any further publication (as defined above) from the date of this order, even if such information has derived from a previous stage or stages of these proceedings.

IT IS ORDERED:

  1. That the identity of the Claimant as a party to these proceedings and of the litigation friend be not disclosed.
  2. Pursuant to CPR Rule 39.2(4), there shall not be disclosed in any report of these proceedings or other publication the name or address of the Claimant, the Claimant’s Litigation Friend or other immediate family members, or any details (including other names, addresses, or a specific combination of facts) that could lead to the identification of Master Oliver Reeve as the Claimant in these proceedings. The Claimant and the Litigation Friend shall be referred to as set out at paragraph 5 of this Order.
  3. In all statements of case and other documents to be filed or served in the proceedings and in any judgment or order in the proceedings and in any report of the proceedings by the press or otherwise:

(i) The Claimant shall be referred to as “OXR”.
(ii) The Litigation Friend shall be referred to as “JXF”.
(iii) Any other details which, on their own or together with other information publicly available, may lead to the identification of the Claimant (including any name of other immediate family members or their addresses) shall be redacted before publication.

  1. That the address of the Claimant and of the litigation friend be stated in all statements of case and other documents to be filed or served in the proceedings as the address of the Claimant’s solicitors.
  2. Pursuant to CPR Rules 5.4C and 5.4D:

(i) A person who is not a party to the proceedings may not obtain a copy of a statement of case, judgment or order from the Court records unless the statement of case, judgment or order has been anonymised in accordance with subparagraphs 5 i-iii above.
(ii) If a person who is not a party to the proceedings applies (pursuant to CPR r.5.4C(1B) or (2)) for permission to inspect or obtain a copy of any other document or communication, such application shall be on at least 7 days’ notice to the Claimant’s solicitor, trustee or deputy.
(iii) Any application for such permission must be made on notice to the Claimant, and the Court will effect service. The file is to be retained by the Court and marked “Anonymised”.

  1. That in so far as necessary, any statement of case or other document disclosing the Claimant’s name or address or the name or address of the litigation friend already filed in the proceedings be replaced by a document describing such name or address in anonymised form as above.
  2. That the original of any such document disclosing the name or address of the Claimant or of the litigation friend is to be placed on the Court file in a sealed envelope marked “not to be opened without the permission of a Judge, Master or District Judge of the Queen’s Bench Division”.
  3. That reporting restrictions apply as to the disclosing of any information that may lead to the subsequent identification of the Claimant or litigation friend. The publication of the name and address of the Claimant or of any member of the Claimant’s immediate family or the name and address of the litigation friend is prohibited.
  4. The provisions of this Order shall not apply: –

(i) to communications between the Court Funds Office and the anonymised party or Litigation Friend in relation to the payment of money into the Court Funds Office for the benefit of the anonymised party or the investment or treatment of payment out of such money.
(ii) to communications between the Court Funds Office and/or the anonymised party or Litigation Friend and any financial institution concerned as to the receipt or investment of such money; or
(iii) to records kept by the Court Funds Office or the anonymised party or Litigation Friend or any such financial institution in relation to such money.

  1. That the Claimant do comply with rule 23.9(2) by service on the Defendant.
  2. That the Defendant may apply under rule 23.10 to have this Order set aside or varied.
  3. Any interested party, whether or not a party to the proceedings, may apply to the Court to vary or discharge this Order, provided that any such application is made on 7 days’ notice to the Claimant, Trustee or Deputy.
  4. The costs of obtaining this order be costs in the case.