RTX -v- Panny Kallis and HCA International Ltd (anonymity order)
Claim No: QB-2016-000009
In the High Court of Justice
Queen’s Bench Division
25 March 2021
Before:
Mrs Justice Lambert
Between:
RTX (A Protected Party by CBX, his Litigation Friend)
-v-
Panny Kallis
and
HCA International Ltd
ORDER
UPON HEARING Jonathan Hand, one of her Majesty’s Counsel on behalf of the Claimant, and Romilly Cummerson of Counsel on behalf of the First Defendant;
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 his interests;
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;
IT IS ORDERED:
- That the identity of the Claimant and of his litigation friend be not disclosed.
- That the Claimant and his litigation friend and his wife ‘——————-‘ (who was formerly his litigation friend) be described 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 as “RTX”, “CBX”, and “ZWX” respectively.
- That the address of the Claimant and of his 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.
- 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 or the name or address of his wife already filed in the proceedings be replaced by a document describing such name or address in anonymised form as above.
- That the original of any such document disclosing the name or address of the Claimant or the name or address of the litigation friend or the name or address of his wife 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”.
- That a non-party may not inspect or obtain a copy of any document on or from the Court file (other than this order duly anonymised as directed) without the permission of a Master or District Judge. 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”.
- That reporting restrictions apply as to the disclosing of any information that may lead to the subsequent identification of the Claimant or the litigation friend. The publication of the name and address of the Claimant or of any member of the Claimant’s immediate family including the litigation friend and his wife is prohibited.
- The provisions of this Order shall not apply:-
- to communications between the Court Funds Office and the anonymised party 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;
- to communications between the Court Funds Office and/or the anonymised party and any financial institution concerned as to the receipt or investment of such money; or
- to records kept by the Court Funds Office or the anonymised party or any such financial institution in relation to such money.
- That the Claimant do by 8 April 2021 draw and file this Order and serve the same on the First Defendant and the Eighth Defendant.
- That any non-party affected by this Order may apply on notice to all parties to have this Order set aside or varied.
- That a copy of this Order shall be published on the website of the Judiciary of England and Wales, and that in the published copy of this Order the Claimant and his litigation friend and his wife ‘———-’ shall be described as “RTX”, “CBX”, and “ZWX” respectively.