Case Nos: CA-2024-002167 - [2025] EWCA Civ 1230

Fecha: 08-Oct-2025

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Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWCA Civ 1230

Case Nos: CA-2024-002167

CA-2024-002118

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)

ON SECOND APPEAL FROM THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

KINGS BENCH DIVISION

Ritchie J

[2024] EWHC 1963 (KB)

ON APPEAL FROM WINCHESTER COUNTY COURT

HHJ Brownhill

J08YJ076

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Date: 8 October 2025

Before:

THE LADY CARR OF WALTON-ON-THE-HILL

LADY CHIEF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND AND WALES

THE PRESIDENT OF THE KING'S BENCH DIVSION

DAME VICTORIA SHARP DBE
and

LORD JUSTICE COULSON

Between:

(1) The Chief Constable of Sussex Police (2) The Crown Prosecution Service	Appellants
- and –
XGY	Respondent
- and –
The Bar Council of England and Wales	Intervener

Jason Beer KC, Georgina Wolfe and Robert Talalay (instructed by Weightmans LLP) for the 1st Appellant

Fiona Barton KC and John Goss (instructed by Government Legal Department) for the 2nd Appellant

Fiona Murphy KC and Frederick Powell (instructed by Irwin Mitchell LLP) for the Respondent

Adrian Waterman KC and Beatrice Collier (instructed by Kingsley Napley LLP)for the Intervener

Hearing Dates: 24-25 June 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30am on 8 October 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

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