(Jan 2013) The court was asked whether an order for anonymity made in the course of proceedings for judicial review should be discharged upon the application of media and other interested parties. Various newspapers had applied for the order to be discharged. Expert evidence from the hospital was to the effect that disclosure may damage not only the patient’s treatment, but also his victims’ relatives, and the general work of the hospital.
Held: ‘It is a cornerstone of the rule of law that public justice should be publicly reported unless the interests of justice otherwise require’
Pitchford LJ, Simon J
[2013] EWHC 1360 (Admin), [2013] EMLR 23
Bailii
Civil Procedure Rules 39.2
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Regina (on the application of C) v Secretary of State for Justice SC 27-Jan-2016
The applicant was a convicted murderer who had been held in a high security mental hospital. His application for unescorted leave had been refused, and he wished to challenge the decisions. Anonymity in the subsequent proceedings had been refused to . .
Cited – Regina (on the application of C) v Secretary of State for Justice SC 27-Jan-2016
The applicant was a convicted murderer who had been held in a high security mental hospital. His application for unescorted leave had been refused, and he wished to challenge the decisions. Anonymity in the subsequent proceedings had been refused to . .
See Also – C v Secretary of State for Justice Admn 2014
The claimant sought to challenge a refusal to him, as a long standing convicted murderer of unsupervised leave from prison as part of a path to release. He was detained in a secure mental hosptal. The court now considered whether the claimant and . .
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Updated: 30 October 2021; Ref: scu.510018