A journalist was intrigued by the listing of a high court case as "ABC v DEF" and by the fact that the chancery division hearing would be held in private. So he asked why?
The judge thought the press inquiry "right and proper" so he agreed to start the hearing in open court in order, supposedly, to explain why he was hearing the case in private.
Answer? Mr Justice Birss revealed that the case involved a housing association and that he was dealing with an application involving the freezing of assets.
He said there was a good reason for hearing the application in private and a good reason for the parties being anonymised. And, er, that was it. Not so much an explanation, surely more of an obfuscation.
Source: PA Media Lawyer
