KF 2024 010445 - [2025] EWHC 1584 (KB)

This is my judgment on the hearing of the Respondents’ application dated 7 January 2025 for an order setting aside, alternatively, varying my order dated 11 December 2024 (the “Order”), granting a Letter of Request issued at the request of the Honorable Pedro V Castillo, a United States Magistrate Judge in the District Court for the Central District of California, on 4 September 2024 in support of copyright complaint proceedings being pursued in that court by the Applicant (the “US Complaint” and the “US Proceedings”) .

The application is supported by the witness statements of Emma Butcher dated 23 December 2024 and 23 May 2025. The Respondents’ application is opposed by the Applicant. The Applicant relies upon the witness statements of Callum Knight dated 25 November 2024, 2 May 2025, 15 May 2025 and 30 May 2025, and Lydia Raw dated 6 May 2025.