Northamptonshire County Council
Please ask for:
Maria Damigos
Tel:
01604 236707
Louis Cannell
Our ref:
FR1825a/MAD
Your ref:
Date:
10th May 2010
E: request-30567-
[email address]
Dear Mr Cannell
Information Request: FR1825a
Thank you for your Information Request received by the Council on 8 April 2010. Your request has
been dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and is detailed below in
italics.
Please provide to me figures for the period from January 2009 to
December 2009 showing the
number of directions or other hearings in
family courts where other parties were said to be not
contactable
i.e.(No Address) and the percentage of hearings that this
represents or the total
number of relevant hearings during that
period.
Please also provide the total number of non contested hearings in
family courts for the same
period where the authority have been
allowed to obtain orders or directions without opposition as
cases
of notifications not reaching other parties also appear to be
common.
Our Response
Your comments are noted, however as stated the Council’s estimate as detailed in my letter to you of 7
April 2010 was calculated by a senior childcare solicitor within Legal Services and will remain. For
completeness it is therefore estimated that to review 216 files, in respect of the first part of your request,
would take approximately 99 hours. This would exceed the fee limit as set out in the Freedom of
Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004 and the Council is not
obliged to process your request further. For information purposes, the fee limit set down by the
Regulations is £450 and in our case this equates to a maximum of 18 hours’ of search and retrieval
time.
We are obliged to advise you that the disclosure to you of the enclosed information does not give
you the right to reproduce or publish such information without the express permission of the
County Council or any other owners of the copyright therein.
Northamptonshire County Council
County Hall
Internal Audit and Risk Management
Northampton, NN1 1AT
w. www.northamptonshire.gov.uk
t. 01604 236707
f. 01604 237004
e. [email address]
If you have any queries please do come back to me in the first instance. If you are unhappy with
my response, you can ask the Council to review it. To do this please write to the following address:
Paul Edwards
Head of Business Intelligence and Performance
Northamptonshire County Council
PO Box 93
County Hall
Northampton NN1 1AN
If our internal review does not resolve the issue to your complete satisfaction, you have the right to
apply to the Information Commissioner for a decision at the following address:
Information Commissioner
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilsmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF.
Or, if you have any complaints in respect of your information request please complete the on-line
comments form that can be found at
www.northamptonshire.gov.uk, along with a full set of
guidance.
Yours sincerely
Maria Damigos
Senior Freedom of Information/Data Protection Officer
Internal Audit and Risk Management