Disclosure
Secretary of State for the Home Department and another v R (on the application of IAB & others) [2024] EWCA Civ 66, [2024] All ER (D) 128 (Mar)
The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, dismissed an appeal by the defendants from a decision of the High Court stating that it was not a matter of routine for the names of civil servants outside the Senior Civil Service to be redacted from documents disclosed in proceedings. The court held that routine redaction was a practice inimical to open government and unsupported by authority. If Parliament had taken the view that members of the Civil Service had a general right to anonymity in judicial review litigation then it should enact a primary statute to that effect.
Family proceedings
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea v NM and others [2024] EWFC 48, [2024] All ER (D) 125 (Mar)
The Family Court ruled on a difficult case management decision regarding the proper ambit of the finding of fact exercise in the present case. The proceedings concerned the third, fourth and fifth respondent children. The third
