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Anonymisation of civil judgments: a routine failure to follow open justice rules – Paul Magrath

A statistical analysis of the civil High Court judgments published in 2023 showed that, out of 116 cases where one or more parties had been anonymised, 67 (or nearly 60%) did not have a corresponding anonymisation order published on the Judiciary website. While around half of these (34) did make some reference to anonymity or reporting restrictions in the judgment itself, the remainder (33) made no such reference. Continue reading

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