- Considered — Rashid Maqsood Abbasi & Anor v Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 2023-03-31
“…he evaluation of risk in that context requires an objective assessment and a significant threshold. A similar point was made in In Re Officer L [2007] UKHL 36; [2007] 1 WLR 2135. The House of Lords considered whether serving or former police officers in Northern Ireland should be afforded anonymity when giving evidence, to safeguard th…”
- Cited — Michael Clifford v Millicom Services UK Limited & Ors. 2023-01-26
“…The most significant case is InRe Officer L [2007] UKHL 36, [2007] 1 WLR 2135. The case was about applications for anonymity by serving or former police officers who were due to be called as witnesses at a public inquiry into a death cau…”
- Cited — H (R on the application of) v Swindon Borough Council 2021-12-03
“…SC 2; [2012] AC 72 at paragraph 39, showing that a continuing risk to life can be an immediate risk to life. At paragraph 20 of In Re Officer L [2007] UKHL 36; [2007] 1 WLR 2135 Lord Carswell said that "the criterion is and should be one that is not readily satisfied: in other words, the threshold is high" but also recorded that the du…”
- Cited — XXX v Camden London Borough Council 2020-11-11
“…ses may be made. The common law has long recognised a duty of fairness towards parties and persons called to give evidence, see In Re Officer L [2007] UKHL 36; [2007] 1 WLR 2135, and balanced that against the public interest in open justice in specific cases. Under the common law test subjective fears, even if not based on facts, can b…”
- Followed — Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police & Ors v Dyer & Ors 2020-10-27
“…The judge went on to consider the authorities to which she had been referred, including the decision of the House of Lords in Re Officer L [2007] UKHL 36; [2007] 1 WLR 2135 to which I will return later in the judgment. She summarised the principles at [51] as follows:…”
- Cited — Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police & Ors v Dyer & Ors 2020-10-27
“…As appears from cases such as In re Officer L [2007] UKHL 36, [2007] 1 WLR 2135, there are material differences between an application invoking Convention rights and an application under the common law, albeit that both routes may and ofte…”
- Cited — TDT, R (On the Application Of) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Rev 1) 2018-06-19
“…he word ‘imminent’ from what Lord Hope said in Van Colle v Chief Constable of the Hertfordshire Police [2009] 1 AC 225, para 66. In the case of In re Officer L [2007] 1 WLR 2135, para 20, Lord Carswell stated that an apt summary of the meaning of an ‘immediate’ risk is one that is ‘present and continuing’. In my view, one must guard ag…”
- Cited — TDT, R (On the Application Of) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Rev 1) 2018-06-19
“…do more than take reasonable steps in the particular circumstances. He referred us in particular to the speech of Lord Carswell in Re Officer L [2007] UKHL 36, [2007] 1 WLR 2135, at para. 21 (p. 2144 F-G); and to the observations of Lord Hughes at paras. 111-113 of his judgment in Commissioner of Metropolitan Police v DSD [2018] UKSC 1…”