WKG -v- Cordell Javan Limton (anonymity order)

Claim No: QB 2019 003871

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION

Date: 29/06/2022

Before:
Mr Caspar Glyn QC

Between:
WKG
(by the Official Solicitor, acting as Litigation Friend)
-v-
CORDELL JAVAN LIMTON

ANONYMITY ORDER
BEFORE Mr Caspar Glyn QC sitting as Deputy Judge of the High Court
AND UPON HEARING Mr Nathan Tavares, one of Her Majesty’s Counsel, on behalf of the
Claimant and Mr Christopher Kennedy, one of Her Majesty’s Counsel, on behalf of the
Defendant
AND UPON Reading the Approval Advice prepared by Mr Tavares and Mr Trusted dated 21
June 2022
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 II of the
Contempt of Court Act 1981 and rules 5.4C and 5.4D of the Civil Procedure Rules.

IT IS ORDERED:-
1. That the identity of the Claimant and of the litigation friend who conducted the
proceedings on his behalf prior to the Official Solicitor shall not be disclosed.
2. That the Claimant and the litigation friend who conducted the proceedings on his
behalf prior to the Official Solicitor 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
“W.K.G.” and “P.R.H.” respectively.
4. That in so far as necessary, any statement of case or other document disclosing the
Claimant’s name or address, or the name and address of the litigation friend who
conducted the proceedings on his behalf prior to the Official Solicitor, already filed in
the proceedings be replaced by a document describing such name in anonymised form
as above, and the addresses removed.
5. That the original of any such document disclosing the name or address of the Claimant
or of the litigation friend who conducted the proceedings on his behalf prior to the
Official Solicitor is to be placed on the Court file marked “Confidential not to be
opened without the permission of a Judge, Master or District Judge of the Queen’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, c/o Messrs Moore Barlow, Concorde House, 165 Church Street
East, Woking, GU21 6 HJ 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 the litigation friend who conducted
the proceedings on his behalf prior to the Official Solicitor. The publication of the
name and address of the Claimant or of any member of the Claimant’s immediate
family or of the litigation friend who conducted the proceedings on his behalf prior to
the Official Solicitor is prohibited.
8. The provisions of this Order shall not apply:-
(i) to communications between the Court Funds Office, Court of Protection or
the Claimant’s professional Deputy and the anonymised party or Litigation
Friend in relation to the payment of money into the Court Funds Office or
to the Deputy for the benefit of the anonymised party or the investment or
treatment of payment out of such money;
(ii) to communications between the Court Funds Office, Court of Protection,
the Deputy and/or the anonymised party or Litigation Friend and any
financial institution concerned as to the receipt or investment of such
money; or
(iii) to records kept by the Court Funds Office, Court of Protection, the Deputy
or the anonymised party or Litigation Friend or any such financial
institution in relation to such money.
(iv) to communications between the defendant solicitors/Insurer and the Court
Funds Office, Court of Protection or the Deputy concerned with
administrating, managing the account and transferring the claimant’s
damages
(v) to communications between the Department for Work and Pensions and the
defendant solicitors/Insurer concerned with administrating and discharging
the outstanding recoverable benefits and NHS charges.
9. That any non-party affected by this Order may apply on notice to all parties to have
this Order set aside or varied.
10. A copy of this Order be published on the website of the Judiciary of England and
Wales pursuant to CPR Part 39.2 and the Practice Guidance: “Publication of Privacy
and Anonymity Orders” naming the Claimant and litigation friend as W.K.G. and
P.R.H. respectively.
Dated this 29th day of June 2022