Judges who presided over Sara Sharif hearings to be named after appeal Ruling says Mr Justice Williams got ‘carried away’ when he banned naming of judges involved in schoolgirl’s care cases.
Mr Justice Williams said in December that the media could not name the judges who oversaw family court proceedings relating to the 10-year-old schoolgirl over concerns of a “real risk” of harm to them from a “virtual lynch mob”.
In a ruling on Friday, three court of appeal judges said Williams had got “carried away” in his ruling and had made “inappropriate and unfair remarks about the press”.
The judges said the three unnamed judges could be identified in seven days, allowing time for HM Courts and Tribunals Service to put protective measures in place.
Three judges who oversaw family court proceedings related to the care of Sara Sharif can be named next week, the court of appeal has ruled.
