H.M.C.T.S. Breach of FOIA - The County Court Hearing Centres species cases

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Dear Law Commission,

Dear Ministry of Justice,

H.M.C.T.S. Breach of FOIA - The County Court Hearing Centres species cases

The following FOI request put in on 31 October 2016 has a been rejected completely ignored by HMCTS including an Internal Review, which is why this request is directly for your department to answer.

The County Court hearing centre's specified cases

Please provide under the FOIA what a specified hearing centre means and what type of specified civil cases are held in the hearing rooms ?

Please confirm if these specified hearing centre cases are held in public or private and whether this is required to be stated on the court orders ?

Please confirm the level of judge required and if they differ for non specified hearing centre cases or are all county court cases heard in hearing centre rooms or some heard in county courts that are not hearing centre rooms, as I am somewhat confused as to the status of the court ?

Can you lastly say if all county court orders made in the hearing centre rooms are prescribed court orders and on prescribed court forms; not on general court order forms.

Yours faithfully,

Mr Frankham

Communications Law Com, Law Commission

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Dear Mr Frankham

I acknowledge receipt of your email which you have sent to us as a Freedom of Information request. The Law Commission is a statutory independent body set up to keep the law of England and Wales under review and to recommend reforms to the law where necessary. More information about our work is published on the internet at http://www.lawcom.gov.uk/. We are not a regulatory body and we do not deal with individual cases or give legal advice, or deal with complaints. I am afraid therefore that we do not hold the information that you are requesting.

Yours sincerely

Dan Leighton | FoI Co-ordinator | Law Commission

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