12 June 2015
OPO (A Child by BHM his litigation friend) v MLA and another [2014] EWHC 2468 (QB), [2015] All ER (D) 23 (Jun)
The claimant, through his mother as litigation friend applied for an injunction to restrain the first defendant father and the second defendant publisher from publishing a book about the first defendant’s experiences of being sexually abused as a child and his subsequent battles with mental illness. The Queen’s Bench Division dismissed the application on the basis, amongst others, that under Art 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, a claim by a child seeking to restrain his father from talking about his (the father’s) life largely before the child was born was misconceived.
