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Civil procedure [2025] JRC 003

Hellard and Richardson v Bois Bois and Anor

Hellard and Richardson v Bois Bois and Anor [2025] JRC 003 (03 January 2025)

The Royal Court refused joinder, redaction, anonymisation, and privacy for a post-judgment application seeking to alter a 2020 judgment naming the applicant.

  • Joinder of parties
  • Redaction/anonymisation of judgments
  • Open justice
  • Article 8 echr (right to privacy)
  • Functus officio
  • Norwich pharmacal relief
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Criminal law [2024] JRC 111

T v AG

T v AG [2024] JRC 111 (13 May 2024)

The Royal Court of Jersey refused to make a transfer order under Article 69 of the Mental Health (Jersey) Law 2016 after concluding no suitable treatment place was available.

  • Transfer order
  • Open justice
  • Court procedure
  • Mental disorder
  • Media exclusion
  • Mental-health-law
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Criminal law [2024] JRC 044

V v AG

V v AG [2024] JRC 044 (23 February 2024)

The Royal Court heard a denotification application under the Sex Offenders (Jersey) Law 2010, ordered the hearing to be private, and granted removal from notification requirements.

  • Sex offenders register
  • Open justice
  • Denotification orders
  • Risk assessment
  • Sex-offenders-register
  • Denotification-orders
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Criminal law [2023] JRC 097

AG v Williams

AG v Williams [2023] JRC 097 (20 June 2023)

The Royal Court of Jersey refused a defence application for private hearings in a sexual offence case involving a vulnerable defendant, ordering the case to proceed in public.

  • Open justice
  • Reporting restrictions
  • Mental health in criminal proceedings
  • Article 6 echr
  • Article 8 echr
  • Article 10 echr
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Criminal law [2022] JRC 228

D v AG

D v AG [2022] JRC 228 (24 October 2022)

The Royal Court held the Magistrate’s Court can, in principle, order a sentencing hearing in private, and remitted the matter for reconsideration under the correct principles.

  • Open justice
  • Sentencing in private
  • Children's rights
  • Case management powers
  • Reporting restrictions
  • Open-justice
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Criminal law [2019] JRC 193

K v AG 26-Sep-2019

K v AG 26-Sep-2019 [2019] JRC 193 (26 September 2019)

The Jersey Royal Court lifted sex offender notification requirements for K, finding continued monitoring disproportionate despite a moderate risk assessment.

  • Sex offender notification requirements
  • Proportionality
  • Risk assessment
  • Article 8 echr
  • Open justice
  • Sex-offender-notification
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Civil procedure [2019] JRC 032

Prospective Applicant v Chief Officer of the States of Jersey Police

Prospective Applicant v Chief Officer of the States of Jersey Police [2019] JRC 032 (28 February 2019)

The court continued anonymity and private-hearing orders in a judicial review, finding that identification would cause sufficiently severe business and reputational harm.

  • Anonymity orders
  • Open justice
  • Article 8 echr
  • Article 10 echr
  • Judicial review
  • Police consent powers
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Civil procedure [2018] JCA 071

Sinels v Hennessy

Sinels v Hennessy [2018] JCA 071 (18 April 2018)

The Court of Appeal refused leave to appeal against a judgment declining to anonymise a public Royal Court judgment. Open justice outweighed the claimed privacy and privilege concerns.

  • Anonymisation of judgments
  • Open justice
  • Legal professional privilege
  • Article 8 echr (privacy)
  • Article 6 echr (public hearing)
  • Balancing competing convention rights
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Trusts [2018] JRC 051A

HSBC Trustee CI v Kwong

HSBC Trustee CI v Kwong [2018] JRC 051A (06 March 2018)

The Royal Court of Jersey held that its judgment in a trust directions matter should be published without anonymisation, with only minor redactions, because anonymisation would be ineffective and open justice prevailed.

  • Open justice
  • Anonymisation of judgments
  • Trustee directions
  • Privacy rights
  • Publication of judgments
  • Open-justice
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Criminal law [2018] JRC 011

AG -v- N

AG -v- N [2018] JRC 011 (16 January 2018)

The Royal Court of Jersey granted an adult applicant’s request to be removed from sex offender notification requirements, and ordered the hearing and judgment anonymised.

  • Sex offender notification requirements
  • Removal from register
  • Open justice
  • Autism and criminal responsibility
  • Sex-offender-notification
  • Removal-from-register
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