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31 October 2019
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Civil way: 1 November 2019

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No dancing in the dark; whistleblowing ears; powers of attorney fail test; costs management escape.

Claimants to show all

We recently met the tribunal claimant who was desperate to maintain his anonymity (see ‘Civil way’, NLJ 4 October 2019 p24). This time, with your leave, we shall introduce you to AAA and eight other QBD claimants with similar cyphers who lap-dance at Spearmint Rhino venues and who have brought proceedings for misuse of private information and data protection breach. Anonymity is what they were after but not an order that would prohibit their real names being published or from being identified as claimants in the proceedings. That led to Nicklin J struggling to see the point of the relief being sought in AAA and others v Rakoff and others [2019] EWHC 2525 (QB), [2019] All ER (D) 01 (Oct) where, absent an appeal, the title is set to expand. Anonymity was declined.

The case is instructive on keeping the red tops at bay. A claim form must contain the claimant’s full name

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