Dear Sir or Madam,

please can you supply me with information on the point wereby it
was first decided that statute law superceded common law, whether
this is a statute, case precedent, or any other form of
documentation.
many thanks

Yours faithfully,

Benjamin addison

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Dear Mr Addison, Can you provide me with your case reference number so I
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Dear Data Access & Compliance Unit,

The reason i have asked for an internal review is due to the fact i
was given no case reference number, my request was not answered and
has been ignored. The request for an internal review gave a link to
the request that i previously made.
For that reason i cannot give you a case reference number. I still
wish to have an internal review into my request, again the previous
letter gave all the details necessary.

Yours sincerely,

ben addison

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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 Ministry of Justice's
handling of my FOI request 'Statute law'.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
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The reason i have asked for an internal review is due to the fact i
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has been ignored. For that reason i cannot give you a case
reference number. I still wish to have an internal review into my
request.

Yours faithfully,

ben addison

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Dear Mr Addison,

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Internal Review.

Yours sincerely

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Dear Benjamin Addison,

With sincere apologies for the delay in responding, please see attached
response to your question of 15 September regarding the status of common
law and statute within the English legal system.

Best regards,

Tania Williams.

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Dear Mr Addison

Please find attached a response to your complaint about the length of
time it took to respond to your information request regarding the status
of the common law and statute law within the English legal system.

Kind regards

Carl Pencil

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Dear Mr Pencil,

I am sorry to trouble you further but i feel the question was not
answered. As far as my understanding goes common law was used
before statute law was invented, therefore common law was once the
supreme law of Britain. With the invention of statute law it did
not hold supremacy over common law at first, this was a later
adjustment. For this reason i wish to know if there is a copy of
the common law, statute law or any other documents that show the
transfer of supremacy.
Failing that can you please explain the process and how it happened

Yours sincerely,

ben addison

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Dear Mr Addison

I am writing in response to your e-mailed queries of the 5th December
2009.

You asked the following questions:

(1) Whether there is a copy of the common law, statute law or any other
documents that show the
transfer of supremacy?

(2) Failing that can you please explain the process and how it happened?

As an internal reviewer I can investigate when a response sent by the
Ministry of Justice has withheld information stating that an exemption
under the Freedom of Information Act applies.

I can also investigate if a response states information is not held. In
that situation I can investigate whether on the balance of
probabilities, information within the scope of a Freedom of information
request is held. Such conclusion would be based on the explanation of
the searches carried out for this information and what this suggests
about the quality, scope, rigour and efficiency of these searches.

Alternatively, I can investigate if a request has not been responded to
within statutory deadlines set out in the Act which is what I did.

However, it is not within my remit as a reviewer to confirm whether
information provided is correct or to consider new requests as these
should be sent to the [email address] to assign to the
first request team.

Follow up queries can be answered by policy officials who provided the
original response. On the 7th December I sent your further queries to
the policy official who will address these separately.

I hope this helps.

Yours Sincerely

Carl Pencil

Data Access and Compliance Unit

Internal Review Team

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Dear Mr Addison,

Please find attached a response to your recent enquiry on the principles
of law.

I hope you find this information useful.

Tania Williams

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