The starting point in Schedule 1 proceedings is that any material likely to identify a child involved in proceedings should not be published. However, this can be dispensed with if the Court so decides. In Goodman v Walker, Goodman sought an order that if the judgment should be published at all, it must be anonymised and redacted.

This was however rejected by the judge, who accepted that the normal confidentiality restrictions could be dispensed with in this case, given what was already in the public domain and Goodman’s own actions in placing information and images on social media and other media publications. 

Anna Stanworth is a senior associate in the family team at the law firm BDB Pitmans