King's / Queen's Bench Division of the High Court

QB-2022-000174 - [2025] EWHC 1669 (KB)

Fecha: 02-Jul-2025

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Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWHC 1669 (KB)

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

KING’S BENCH DIVISION

DIVISIONAL COURT

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Date: 02/07/2025

Before:

THE LADY CHIEF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND AND WALES
THE PRESIDENT OF THE KING’S BENCH DIVISION

MR JUSTICE CHAMBERLAIN

Case No: QB-2022-000174

Between:

HM ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR ENGLAND AND WALES

Claimant

- and -

BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION

Defendant

Case No: AC-2024-LON-02952

And Between:

THE KING

on the application of

‘BETH’

Claimant

- and -

THE INVESTIGATORY POWERS TRIBUNAL

- and -

THE SECURITY SERVICE

Defendant

Interested Party

Sir James Eadie KC, Neil Sheldon KC, Jennifer Thelen and Emmanuel Sheppard (instructed bythe Treasury Solicitor) for HM Attorney General for England and Wales

Jude Bunting KC (instructed by the BBC Litigation Department) for the British Broadcasting Corporation

Charlotte Kilroy KC, Jesse Nicholls and Isabel Buchanan (instructed by the Centre for Women’s Justice) for Beth

Sarah Hannett KC and Paul Skinner (instructed by the Government Legal Department) for the Investigatory Powers Tribunal

Zubair Ahmad KC and Dominic Lewis (instructed by the Special Advocates’ Support Office) as Special Advocates

Hearing date: 3 June 2025

Approved Judgment