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Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWHC 2086 (Admin)
Case No: AC-2025-LON-001365
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
KING’S BENCH DIVISION
ADMINISTRATIVE COURT
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
Date: 11 August 2025
Before :
MR JUSTICE JOHNSON
Between :
(1) Wikimedia Foundation | ||
(a charitable foundation registered in the United States of America) | ||
(2) BLN | Claimants | |
- and - | ||
Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology | Defendant | |
Rupert Paines and Raphael Hogarth (instructed by Pinsent Masons LLP) for the Claimants
Cecilia Ivimy KC, Ruth Kennedy and Joseph Lavery (instructed by the Government Legal Department) for the Defendant
Hearing dates: 22 – 23 July 2025
Approved Judgment
This judgment was handed down by release to The National Archives on 11 August 2025
Mr Justice Johnson:
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- Section 1
- Wikipedia
- The Online Safety Act 2023
- Ofcom’s research and advice
- The Secretary of State’s decision to make regulation 3
- The next steps
- Application of the Category 1 threshold conditions to Wikipedia
- Submissions
- Ground 2: Rationality
- Ground 3: Compatibility with articles 8, 10 and 11 of the Convention
- Ground 4: Breach of articles 14 of the Convention/Irrationality
- Ground (1): Did the defendant breach paragraph 1(5) of schedule 11 of the Act ?
- Ground (2): Was the decision to make regulation 3 irrational?
- Ground (3): Incompatibly with articles 8, 10 and 11 of the Convention
- Ground (4): Irrationality/Incompatibly with article 14 of the Convention
- Conclusions