Child welfare
A Local Authority v X and others [2025] EWFC 126
The Family Court ruled on a case involving the anonymisation of parents’ names in published judgments related to care proceedings, where findings of child abuse were made against the parents. The court had to recognise the extraordinarily difficult balancing exercise between Article 8 (right to privacy) and Article 10 (freedom of expression) of the European Convention on Human Rights. The court had concluded that the Article 8 rights of the children should prevail, that those rights justified interference in the Article 10 rights, and such interference was proportionate in the particular and unusual circumstances of the case.
Competition
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and others v Lundbeck Ltd and others [2025] EWCA Civ 677
The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal by the appellant pharmaceutical companies against the Competition Appeal Tribunal’s (CAT’s) decision that the respondents’ (NHS bodies) follow-on claim under s 47A of the Competition Act 1998 was not time-barred. The respondents claimed for £500m in damages following the appellants having concluded unlawful agreements
