AC-2025-LON-002497 - [2025] EWHC 2842 (Admin)

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Before :

THE HON. MRS JUSTICE STEYN DBE

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Between :

THE KING (on the application of WITNESS IIA126)

Claimant

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CHAIR OF THE INDEPENDENT INQUIRY RELATING TO AFGHANISTAN

Defendant

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(1) SECRETARY OF STATE FOR DEFENCE

(2) THE AFGHAN FAMILIES

(3) THE GREEN HEARING RESTRICTION ORDER APPLICANT(S)

Interested Parties

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THE ROYAL MILITARY POLICE

Applicant

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Kate Grange KC, Caroline Stone and Max Mills (instructed by the Government Legal Department) for the Claimant

Jonathan Glasson KC, Jonathan Polnay KC and Paul Skinner (instructed by the Solicitor to the Independent Inquiry Relating to Afghanistan) for the Defendant

Andrew O’Connor KC, Steven Gray and Edward Pleeth (instructed by the Government Legal Department) for the First Interested Party

Helen Law, Jessica Jones and Sarah Dobbie (instructed by Leigh Day) for the Second Interested Party

Matthew Butt KC (instructed by Kingsley Napley) for the Third Interested Party

Paul Greaney KC, John Goss and Paige Jones (instructed by the Government Legal Department) for the Applicant

Hearing date: 3 October 2025

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Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30am on 3 November 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

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THE HON. MRS JUSTICE STEYN DBE