Certified offences to the High Court?

Dear Sir or Madam,

Over the last five years how many certified offences has each LGO
brought to the attention of the High Court, how many involved a
council member or officer, what were the outcomes and which council
did the member or officers work for.

Yours faithfully,

Trevor R Nunn

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Local Government
Ombudsmen's handling of my FOI request 'Certified offences to the
High Court?'.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ce...

Yours faithfully,

Trevor R Nunn

Dear Sir or Madam,

A third and final attempt to get you to respond to this FOI request
before I submit a complaint to the Information Commissioner.

I submitted a Freedom of Information request on the 18th September
2009.

[Over the last five years how many certified offences has each LGO
brought to the attention of the High Court, how many involved a
council member or officer, what were the outcomes and which council
did the member or officers work for.]

This was submitted via the What Do They Know website and has a
unique URL and reply address. Full details can be seen by viewed at

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ce...

Unfortunately for some reason your office insists on responding to
a different Freedom of Information request. One which I had
withdrawn which has also has a unique URL and reply address.

Even when I submitted an internal review request regarding

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ce...

You wrongly replied to the withdrawn FOI request. Just what do I
have to do to get you to respond to a valid FOI request and ignore
one that was clearly withdrawn?

I have no intention of following the suggestion in your response to
my withdrawn FOI request by submitting a third request.

I have submitted a valid Freedom of Information request via the
What Do They Know website and I demand a response.

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ce...

Yours faithfully,

Trevor R Nunn

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Local Government
Ombudsmen's handling of my FOI request 'Certified offences to the
High Court?'.

Your reliance on the 1974 LG Act part III section 32 not to supply
the information is perverse because I am not asking the Ombudsman
to disclose any information obtained in the course of, or for the
purposes of, the investigation of a complaint. Far from it, I
merely wish to know how many times each Ombudsman had so much
difficulty obtaining information, for the purposes of an
investigation, they had to certify an offence to the high court.

Neither do I accept that the only way to obtain the information I
seek would be to examine each complaint file. Certifying an offence
to the high court is not something an Ombudsman would do lightly or
without recourse to legal advice, whether internal or external. As
such each Ombudsman or their legal advisors would have the
information at hand. I would also argue that a Local Government
Ombudsman certifying an offence to the high court is so rare it
would be easy for identify the few times it has been done, if at
all.

Please supply the information requested without any more perverse
excuses.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ce...

Yours faithfully,

Trevor R Nunn

Dear Foi Officer,

After I received your response dated 16th October 2009 I submitted
a request for an internal review. If you don't confirm that my
internal review is being processed within the next few days I will
submit a complaint to the ICO.

Full details here

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ce...

Yours sincerely,

Trevor R Nunn

Dear Foi Officer,

Before I submit a complaint to the ICO I would like to give you one
final opportunity to complete the internal review (requested on the
18th September 2009) and provide an explanation as to what the
exceptional circumstances were that stopped you from completing the
internal review in a timely fashion. If I do not receive a
satisfactory response by the 18th December 2009 I will submit a
complaint to the ICO.

Yours sincerely,

Trevor R Nunn

Dear Local Government Ombudsmen,

My apologies the date in my last message should have read read 18th
October not 18th September.

Yours faithfully,

Trevor R Nunn

Dear Angela Thackray,

Thank you for the information. Just a pity it took so long and
necessitated a complaint to the information commissioner. I now
consider this freedom of information request satisfactorily
concluded and will inform the Information Commissioner accordingly.

Yours sincerely,

Trevor R Nunn