R (OAA MSB) -v- Secretary of State for the Home Department (anonymity order)

Administrative CourtHigh CourtKing's Bench DivisionAnonymity Order

Claim number: AC-2026-LON-002708

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

In the matter of an application for judicial review

15 June 2026

Before:

The Hon. Mrs Justice Cutts DBE

Between:

The King
on the application of
R (OAA MSB)
(Claimants)

-v-

Secretary of State for the Home Department
(Defendant)

Order

Notification of Judge’s Decision (CPR 54.11)

Following consideration of the documents filed by the Claimant

ORDER BY THE HON. MRS JUSTICE CUTTS DBE

  1. Anonymity: Anonymity is granted at this stage as necessary for the proper administration of justice and to protect the interests of the claimants and their children. The claimants shall be referred to as BM, SL and MB in these proceedings and the matter shall be listed as R (OAA MSB) v Secretary of State for the Home Department.
  2. Litigation friend: BM is appointed as MB’s litigation friend.
  3. Rolled-up hearing: The application for permission to apply for judicial review is adjourned to be listed as a “rolled-up” hearing. If permission is granted, the court will proceed immediately to determine the claim.
  4. Expedition: The hearing is to be listed on 21 July 2026.
  5. Costs: Reserved.
  6. Case Management Directions:

(a) The Claimant must, within 7 days of the date of service of this Order, file an undertaking to pay the continuation fee (see below) if permission to apply for judicial review is granted.

(b) The Defendant’s Acknowledgment of Service and Summary Grounds of Defence is abridged to 14 days.

(c) The Claimants, if so advised, may file a response to the Defendant’s Acknowledgment of Service and Summary Grounds within 72 hours of receipt.

(d) 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, by 13 July 2026. The parties must, if requested by the Court, lodge 2 hard-copy versions of the hearing bundle.

(e) 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 by 13 July 2026.

(f) The time estimate for the substantive hearing is 1 day. If either party considers that this time estimate should be varied, they must inform the court as soon as possible.

(g) CPR 2.11 (variation of timetable by written agreement between the parties) does not apply.

OBSERVATIONS AND REASONS

(1) The claimants are asylum seekers whose asylum claims have yet to be determined. The third claimant is a child. Anonymity is therefore granted at this stage. It is to be addressed again at the rolled up hearing.

(2) There is a need for expedition in the case. The claimants, who have three children, have statutorily to be rehoused by the 25 July 2026. They cannot therefore remain in their current accommodation after that date. The question of where they are to be accommodated thereafter is in issue in this case.

(3) I consider that a rolled up hearing rather than interim relief is appropriate on all the facts of this case. This is on the basis that interim relief is likely to be the same as the final relief sought.

(4) In light of the scope of the evidence involved in the case I consider that a rolled up hearing is unlikely to impose a much greater burden on the Defendant who has been on full notice of the legal and evidential issues in this case since October 2025 with the matter having been the subject of recent previous judicial review proceedings.

Signed: Mrs Justice Cutts

Date: 15/06/2026