Dear Sir or Madam,
Further to a recent article [1] on age assessment of young asylum
seekers, following the A v London Borough of Croydon, WK v Kent
Borough Council [2009] EWHC 939 (Admin), 8 May 2009, court ruling
[2], can you please email me an electronic copy of:
1) All the information and materials you hold concerning this court
case, whether used before, during or after the case was concluded,
together with a summary of such information, used, relied upon or
referred to during, before or after the case was concluded. This
should include any information you hold from either the interested
party, the Home Department and the First defendant the London
Borough of Croydon and the Second defendant the Kent Borough
Council.
As this represents a court case the information being requested has
already been substantially disclosed in the Public domain arena, it
just has not been made available to the general Public in an
accessible format.
References:
[1] Council Hall wins key case on young asylum seekers
http://www.kentnews.co.uk/kent-news/Council-Hall-wins-key-case-on-young-asylum-seekers-newsinkent24438.aspx?news=local
[2] A Claimant - and - London Borough of Croydon - and – Secretary
of State for the Home Department Defendant Interested Party And WK
Claimant - and - Secretary of State for the Home Department First
Defendant - and - Kent County Council Second Defendant [2009] EWHC
939 (Admin), 8 May 2009
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2009/939.html
: Your correspondence :
Please ensure that any of your general correspondence,
acknowledgements or holding letters etc are included or
cut-and-pasted into the body of the email messages, using plain
text, rather than as attachments. As this will mean your
correspondence is much easier to access, read and respond to.
: Accessibility :
When providing any information disclosures please provide it in the
original unrestricted format such as:
a. MS Word .doc or Rich Text Text .rtf format or equivalent
(suitable for disclosure of email messages)
b.Spreadsheets in MS Excel .xls format or equivalent
c.Presentations in MS Powerpoint .ppt format or equivalent
or converted to Portable Document Format (PDF), ONLY if none of the
above formats are available
if you only have a paper version (hard copy) available, please
provide a Digital Photo Copier Scanned version in PDF format. If
you do provide disclosures in PDF from a Digital Photo Copier Scan,
please state that you have done so because no other format, such as
a, b or c above, are available.
If you need to redact text elements of any disclosure can you
please ensure that the rest of text based information remains
accessible to a Screen Reader.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_reader>
Please ensure any electronic disclosures are absolutely free of any
Document Restrictions and Encryption or Passwords, as this is
likely to render them less usable on a general basis and more
specifically, inaccessible to Assistive Technology.
Please do not send any information in compilation archive formats,
such as .zip.
Providing correspondence and disclosed information via these means
will help ensure that text based information is accessible for use
with a Screen Reader or a Magnifier for none text based information
and will prevent any further and separate representations under the
Disability Discrimination Act. If you are unable to meet these
reasonably practicable accessibility requests please state why and
provide a copy of any internal information, such as a policy relied
upon that would explain such a decision.
Yours faithfully,
Cassidy, J
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