June 27, 2024

TM -v- Milton Keynes City Council (anonymity order)

Administrative Court High Court King's Bench Division Anonymity Order

Claim number: AC-2024-LON-001735

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

27 June 2024

Before:

Timothy Corner KC sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge

Between:

The King on the application of
TM

-v-

Milton Keynes City Council

Order

Notification of the Judge’s decision on the application for permission to apply for judicial review (CPR 54.11, 54.12)

Following consideration of the documents lodged by the Claimant and the Acknowledgement of service filed by the Defendant

ORDER by Timothy Corner KC sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge

1. The Claimant’s application for an anonymity order is granted under CPR r 39.2 (4).

2. The Claimant in this action and her dependant family members shall have anonymity until further order. No report or publication of these proceedings shall directly or indirectly identify the Claimant and her dependant family members. Pursuant to CPR r. 5.4 (c), a person not a party to the proceedings may obtain a copy of the statement of case, judgment or order of the court records, only if the statement of case, judgment or order of the court has been anonymised. In the case title, the Claimant’s name shall be replaced by the initials “TM”.

3. The application for permission to apply for judicial review is granted.

4. The hearing of the claim is expedited and shall be listed for hearing by the end of Trinity Term 2024, or as soon thereafter as the court can accommodate the hearing, with a time estimate of 1 day. If the parties disagree with this time estimate they shall provide a written time estimate within 7 days of service of this order.

Observations

1. The case is arguable for the reasons set out in the Claimant’s Statement of Facts and Grounds and Reply (and despite the points made in the Defendant’s Summary Grounds of Defence) and should be heard promptly.

Case Management Directions

1. The Defendant and any other person served with the Claim Form who wishes to contest the claim or support it on additional grounds shall, within [10] days of the date of service of this Order, file and serve (a) Detailed Grounds for contesting the claim or supporting it on additional grounds, and (b) any written evidence that is to be relied on. For the avoidance of doubt, a party who has filed and served Summary Grounds pursuant to CPR 54.8 may comply with (a) above by filing and serving a document which states that those Summary Grounds shall stand as the Detailed Grounds required by CPR 54.14.

2. Any application by the Claimant to serve evidence in reply shall be filed and served within [3] days of the date on which the Defendant serves evidence pursuant to 1(b) above.

3. The parties shall agree the contents of the hearing bundle and must file it with the Court not less than [2] weeks before the date of the hearing of the judicial review. An electronic version of the bundle shall be prepared and lodged in accordance with the Guidance on the Administrative Court website. The parties shall, if requested by the Court lodge 2 hard-copy versions of the hearing bundle.

4. The Claimant must file and serve a Skeleton Argument not less than [5] days before the date of the hearing of the judicial review.

5. The Defendant and any Interested Party must file and serve a Skeleton Argument not less than [3] days before the date of the hearing of the judicial review.

6. The parties shall agree the contents of a bundle containing the authorities to be referred to at the hearing. An electronic version of the bundle shall be prepared in accordance with the Guidance on the Administrative Court website. The parties shall 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, shall be lodged with the Court not less than [2] days before the date of the hearing of the judicial review.