SB -v- JB & Ors (anonymity order)

High CourtKing's Bench DivisionAnonymity Order

Claim No: QB-2022-MAN-000035

In the High Courts of Justice
King’s Bench Division

30 September 2022

Before:

HHJ Sephton KC sitting as a Judge of the High Court

Between:
SB (A Protected Party by his Stepdaughter
& Litigation Friend, HC)
-v-
(1) JB
(2) Liverpool Victoria Insurance Company
(acting as agents for the Motor Insurers’ Bureau)


Anonymity Order

BEFORE HHJ Sephton KC sitting as a Judge of the High Court at the Manchester on 30th September 2021

UPON HEARING Counsel for the Claimant and Leading Counsel for the 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 the interests of the Claimant.

AND PURSUANT to rule 39.2(4) of the Civil Procedure Rules and section 11 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 and rules 5.4C and 5.4D of the Civil Procedure Rules.

BY CONSENT IT IS ORDERED THAT:

  1. The identity of the Claimant and of the Litigation Friend and the First Defendant be not disclosed.
  2. That the Claimant and the 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 “SBB” and “SBC”. The Claimant’s wife shall be referred to as “SBC” and the First Defendant as “BJJ”.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. That the original of any such document disclosing the name or address of the Claimant or of the Litigation Friend or of the Defendant 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 King’s Bench Division”.
  6. 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”.
  7. That reporting restrictions apply as to the disclosing of any information that may lead to the subsequent identification of the Claimant or Litigation Friend or Defendant. 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 or the Defendant is prohibited.
  8. The provisions of this Order shall not apply:-

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

  1. That any non-party affected by this Order may apply on notice to all parties to have this Order set aside or varied.
  2. Costs in case.