The Weekly Law Reports
[2016] 4 WLR 177
Family Division
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council v M and others
[2016] EWHC 2660 (Fam)
2016 Oct 19–21; 25
Cobb J
Children— Inherent jurisdiction— Child sexual exploitation— Local authority seeking injunctive relief under inherent jurisdiction— Whether inherent jurisdiction appropriate
Practice— Anonymity order— Victim of child sexual exploitation— Application for lifelong anonymity orders following local authority’s discontinued application for injunctive relief— Whether vulnerable female child originally thought to be victim of sexual exploitation entitled to lifelong anonymity— Whether men associated with female child entitled to lifelong anonymity—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 8.1, 10.1