Re: HB (reporting restrictions order)

Court of Appeal Civil DivisionCourt of ProtectionAnonymity Order

Case numbers: CA-2026-001043 and 1043-A

In the Court of Appeal

On appeal from
HHJ Beckley sitting in the Court of Protection
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10 June 2026

Before:

Lady Justice King

Re:

HB

Reporting restrictions order

IF YOU DISOBEY THIS ORDER YOU MAY BE FOUND GUILTY OF CONTEMPT OF COURT AND MAY BE SENT TO PRISON OR BE FINED OR HAVE YOUR ASSETS SEIZED. YOU SHOUD READ THE ORDER CAREFULLY AND ARE ADVISED TO CONSULT A SOLICITOR AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO ASK THE COURT TO VARY OR DISCHARE THE ORDER

ORDER

  1. Duration

    This Order shall remain in force until further order.

  2. Who is bound

    This Order binds all persons and companies (whether acting by their directors, employees or agents or in any other way) who know that the Order has been made.

  3. Publishing Restrictions

    This Order prohibits the publishing or broadcasting, in any newspaper, magazine, public computer network, internet site, social network or media including Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, SnapChat, You Tube and any other sound or television broadcast or cable or satellite programme service of:

a. Any material or information (including any photograph, name and/or address) that identifies or is likely to lead to the identification of any of the following (who are identified in Schedule 1 to this Order):  
i. The Appellants- JB and SB
ii. The Appellants’ son-HB
iii. The placement where the Appellants’ son resides.

  1. For the avoidance of doubt, the following can be reported: the matter concerns a young adult, and the court is being invited to consider whether the decision of HHJ Beckley to refuse the Appellants’ application to be appointed as the young adult’s personal welfare deputies was wrong.
  2. No publication of the text or summary of this Order (except for service of the Order under paragraph 9 below) shall include any of the matters referred to in paragraph 3 above or any of the information in Schedule 1.
  1. Restriction on seeking information

    This order prohibits any person from seeking any information relating to the Appellants and/or HB from the Appellants or HB

  2. Provision of redacted skeleton arguments

    Pursuant to CPR PD52C paragraph 33, the parties shall by send to the Clerk to Sir Stephen Cobb, copies of skeleton arguments filed in this appeal redacted to remove the names of those persons, places or bodies identified in paragraph 6 above to be provided to accredited law reported and accredited media reporters and any such other persons as may be directed by the constitution.

8. What is not restricted by this Order

    Nothing in this Order shall prevent any person from:
    a. Publishing information relating to any part of a hearing in a court in England and Wales (including a coroner’s court) in which the court was sitting in public and did not itself make any order restricting publication.
    b. Seeking or publishing information which is not restricted by paragraph 3 above.
    c. Inquiring whether a person or place falls within paragraph 3(a) above.  
    d. Seeking information relating to the Appellants and/or any of the individuals identified in paragraph 3(a) above while acting in a manner authorised by statute or by any court in England and Wales.
    e. Seeking information from the responsible solicitor acting for any of the parties or any appointed press officer, whose details are set out in Schedule 2 to this Order.
    f. Seeking or receiving information from anyone who before the making of this Order had previously approached that person with the purpose of volunteering information (but this paragraph will not make lawful the provision or receipt of private information which would otherwise be unlawful).
    g. Publishing information which before the service on that person of this Order was already in the public domain in England and Wales as a result of publication by another person in any newspaper, magazine, sound or television broadcast or cable or satellite programme service, or on the internet website of a media organisation operating within England and Wales.

    1. Service

    Copies of this Order endorsed with a notice warning of the consequences of disobedience shall be served by the Appellants (and may be served by any other party to the proceedings):

    (a) By service on such newspaper and sound or television broadcasting or cable or satellite or programme services as they think fit, by fax or first class post addressed to the editor (in the case of a newspaper) or senior news editor (in the case of a broadcasting or cable or satellite programme service) or website administrator (in the case of an internet website) and/or to their respective legal departments; and/or
    (b) On such other persons as the parties may think fit, by personal service.

    1. Further applications about this order

    The parties and any person affected by any of the restrictions in paragraphs 3 – 6 above may make application to vary or discharge it to the Court of Appeal on not less than 48 hours’ notice to the parties.  

    1. This order shall take effect immediately notwithstanding that it does not bear the court seal.

    2. Publication of this order

      This order but not the Schedules shall be published on the Judiciary website.

    Dated: 10 June 2026

    BY THE COURT