Cases

BBC v Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council, X and Y

Held

Applying the balancing exercise in Re S and Campbell v MGN, dismissing the application: (1) There was nothing inherently confidential or constituting an abnormal physical threat to the social workers that justified interference with the Article 10 rights of the former wards and the BBC; (2) The evidence served in support of the social workers' Article 8 claim did not convincingly establish a pressing social need for the restraint asked for; (3) Interference with the social workers' Article 8 rights was legitimate and proportionate, given the public interest in the proceedings and in openness in family proceedings generally. (4) There was no longer any interest of a particular child or children generally in retaining the anonymity of the social workers.

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