B e f o r e :
HIS HONOUR JUDGE JEREMY RICHARDSON QC Sitting with HER HONOUR JUDGE PEMBERTON Both sitting as Judges of the High Court ____________________
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th January 2017
JUDGE JEREMY RICHARDSON QC: Miss Jenkins, these proceedings are in the High Court. We are sitting in public. My Lady and I are sitting together in this unusual situation.
The first thing my Lady and I wish to say is this: the court was, and remains, deeply saddened by the news of the death of Miss Gascoigne. Her name is now in the public domain and I can refer to her by name as I would wish in these tragic circumstances. I re-emphasise that the court is deeply saddened by this news.
What I propose to do in a moment or two is to deliver a judgment as I indicated I would. Are there any developments that I need to know about before going further that can be mentioned in public?
MISS JENKINS: No, not at this point, my Lord, thank you.
JUDGE JEREMY RICHARDSON QC: Thank you very much indeed. I shall proceed, therefore, to give the judgment. What I propose to direct is that this judgment, indeed, the entire transcript of these proceedings, be immediately made available; that is to say as soon as possible. The transcript will be paid for at public expense.
JUDGE JEREMY RICHARDSON QC: The judgment I am about to give may be publicly reported. This part of these family proceedings are in public. The proceedings before Her Honour Judge Pemberton, yesterday, before yesterday, and hereafter are subject to the provisions of s.97 of the Children Act 1989. I expressly lift that provision to enable this judgment to be reported, but no more. Any application to lift any part of the wider embargo must be made to Judge Pemberton.
The purpose of this judgment is to set out what the court did yesterday afternoon and early evening. It is also designed to furnish reasons for why the court granted the injunctive relief which expired at 9pm last night.
There are ten preliminary matters I must cover.