Dear Mr Moore

SUBJECT: Freedom of Information Request

Thank you for your email dated 23 October 2009, in which you asked for Ministry of Justice (MoJ) for the following information:

I would like the following defined:

"Risk of emotional harm"

"Risk of significant emotional harm"

"Risk of emotional abuse"

"Risk of significant emotional abuse"

Also I would like the reference/s to case law and statutes in UK

law and common law that these phrases fall under as actionable by

Local Authorities, what statutes in Civil Law and Common Law gives

then the authority to act on these phrases, and the criteria at

which these phrases would be actionable in a lawful court system.

I apologise for the unacceptable delay in responding to your email.

I can confirm that we have decided that your request would be better handled by our Ministerial Correspondence Unit as “Treat Official Correspondence” and not under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). This is because an explanation can be arranged to be given by the MCU as opposed to only supplying recorded information under the FOIA. We have therefore passed your request to MCU to deal with. Should you wish to contact MCU regarding this please do so using the details below.

General enquiries

Ministry of Justice
102 Petty France
London
SW1H 9AJ
United Kingdom

Telephone: +44 (0)20 3334 3555

E-mail: [email address]

However, the UK Statute Law Database may hold some of the information you seek. The database is online, and searchable. I have included the web address below.

http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/

Yours sincerely

Paul Hunt

Data Access & Compliance Unit

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