Richard Jones KC instructed by Machins on behalf of the child appeared in the High Court in the case of A Local Authority v A Mother [2025] EWHC 3498. This was a transparency case regarding media reporting on care proceedings involving allegations of fabricated or induced illness against a young person made while in hospital.

Issues included whether a major NHS hospital (Great Ormond Street Hospital) could be named, and whether details of the child’s medical treatment could be reported, given the risk that such information might lead to the child’s identification.

This is thought to be one of the first published judgments to consider the interaction between PD 12R (previously the Transparency Pilot) and the Supreme Court’s recent approach to the Re S balancing exercise in Abbasi v Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2025] UKSC 15.