Cases

Re B (A Child) (Disclosure)

Facts

In 2003 B was the subject of the care order removing her from her mother. Her mother claimed to be the victim of a miscarriage of justice and wished to tell her story in public as well as make a complaint about the doctors concerned to the GMC. The mother's solicitor provided documents from the case to a number of MPs, including her sister the Solicitor General. The mother applied to the court for an order permitting her to make disclosure of information and documents from the case both to the GMC and publicly. The local authority resisted the application. The local authority also applied without notice for an injunction restraining the BBC from broadcasting any interview with the mother without giving notice to the local authority. It later abandoned this application but sought a contra mundum order prohibiting publication of information that may identify the child or the doctors concerned.

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