Reporting Restriction Order

PMC v Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board [2025] EWCA Civ 1126

Sir Geoffrey Vos MR, Warby LJ and Whipple LJ allowed an appeal against the refusal of an anonymity order in a child's clinical negligence claim, confirming that courts retain a limited common law power to derogate from open justice where strictly necessary to protect vulnerable individuals.

Louise Tickle & Anor v The BBC & Ors [2025] EWCA Civ 42

Sir Geoffrey Vos MR, King LJ and Warby LJ. While anonymisation of judges is theoretically possible, it is highly unlikely. The integrity of the justice system depends on the judge sitting in public and being named, even if they sit in private.

The Use and Misuse of the Rubric in the Family Courts

The Use and Misuse of the Rubric in the Family Courts

In a familiar line of cases of which the first was BT v CU [2021] EWFC 87, [2022] 1 WLR 1349, paras [100]–[114], and the last In re PP (A Child: Anonymisation) [2023] EWHC 330 (Fam), [2023] 4 WLR 48, paras [49]–[62], and Augousti v Matharu [2023] EWHC

Gallagher v Gallagher (No.1) (Reporting Restrictions) [2022] EWFC 52

Judgment date: 13 June 2022 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2022/52.html Mostyn J. Application for a reporting restriction order ('RRO'), alternatively an anonymity order. Reference to proceedings 'in private' in FPR 27.10 and 27.11 does not impose secrecy as