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30th June 2023
12:55pm BST
Mrs Justice Collins Rice said: "The relationship between the allegations and the investigation is not simple.
"The claimant has been arrested but not (yet) charged in relation to two allegations.
"He has been interviewed in relation to a third allegation. A decision appears to have been made not to investigate further a fourth allegation.
"And further allegations have not (yet) been notified formally to the police. All the allegations are of a similar nature."
It is understood that the man’s bid for this injunction was challenged by the BBC, and speaking about the broadcaster Mrs Justice Collins Rice said: "Its evidence is that the proposed reports will state that the BBC has found that at least a quarter of businesses in the sector in which the claimant works have had employees investigated by the police for serious sexual offences.
"Yet despite this, the sector does not have any policies or procedures for employees who are accused of violence against women, nor any consistency of approach to allegations.
"They will explain that the claimant has been investigated by the police and arrested in respect of the allegations since it is important to explain that his employer knows that this is the position and has taken no action.
"However the involvement of the police would not be the focus of the reports."
Granting the anonymity request, Mrs Justice Collins Rice concluded: "I am satisfied it creates a substantial risk of impeding or prejudicing the necessary efforts to ensure that all the evidence, and only the evidence, properly forensically relevant to the trial of any criminal charges brought will be available to a jury," she said.
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