CXD v Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - Privacy Order
Summary
The High Court of Justice King's Bench Division issued a privacy order on 13 March 2026 in case QB-2015-005927, directing that a case management conference be heard in private pursuant to CPR 39.2. The order cites confidential information, child protection interests, and the interests of justice as grounds for the private hearing. A copy of the decision will be published on the judiciary website in compliance with CPR 39.2(5).
“This hearing shall be heard in private pursuant to CPR 39.2 because it involves confidential information, it is necessary to protect a child and it is in the interests of justice.”
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What changed
The court granted a privacy order under CPR 39.2 directing that the case management conference proceed in private. The order specifies that confidential information and child protection considerations justify the private hearing. The decision will nonetheless be published on the judiciary website in anonymised form.
Affected parties in similar clinical negligence proceedings should note that courts may order private hearings where child protection or confidential medical information is involved, without affecting the subsequent publication of anonymised decisions on the judiciary website.
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Claim number: QB-2015-005927
In the High Court of Justice
King’s Bench Division
Clinical Negligence
13 March 2026
Before:
Master Stevens
Between:
CXD
(by his litigation friend the Official Solicitor)
-v-
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Order
UPON a case management conference by MS Teams
AND UPON HEARING John de Bono KC for the Claimant and Edward Bishop KC for the Defendant
BY CONSENT
IT IS ORDERED:
- This hearing shall be heard in private pursuant to CPR 39.2 because it involves confidential information, it is necessary to protect a child and it is in the interests of justice.
- A copy of this decision shall be published on the website of the judiciary of England Wales in accordance with CPR 39.2(5)
- Costs in the case. Dated 13 March 2026
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