KB-2025-001228 - [2025] EWHC 2506 (KB)

Examination of documents disclosed on 9 September 2025, at around the time that the application was being finalised, indicated that the Claimants had been conducting covert surveillance of Mr Friend and his family. Samuels 1 at [51] asserted that disclosure of further documents relating to the surveillance issue was not being sought and it did not feature in the draft order appended to the application.

Mr Mansfield KC sought to pursue an application for further material about the surveillance issue in his skeleton argument for the hearing. However, he rightly accepted at the outset of the hearing that such an application was not properly before the court and would have to be made in the usual way at a future date if so advised.