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So what is the ICO playing at now? It nowhere mentions the aggregation issue in its PIT guidance.
It says, with regard to its Public Interest Test (P...
Judge Wikeley says that the law on section 14 FOIA and post-request events is not 'as' uncertain as I claim it is. He says that the case law of Montagu...
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, to quote Judge Wikeley.
Where does the below FTT decision leave the recent Judge Wikeley case law of Montague, which state...
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Tim Turner
I notice you haven't bothered responding to my last post asking you whether you still endorsed your previous belief that clarification of...
18 August 2023
Case Reference: IC-239613-H8F4
Dear M Boyce,
Please find enclosed our response to your request for an internal review
received...
Thanks J Roberts for the above DN that clearly states that post-request events CANNOT be taken into account in section 14 (vexatious) FOIA cases.
But...
A few other points are notable here too.
Judge Wikeley DID give reasons for his TWM certification in the above case. He was under no legal duty to do...
Dear M Boyce,
Thank you for your correspondence of 21 October 2021 in which you
requested information from the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombud...
They just don't want to acknowledge it in public.'
I agree. This junk statistic sticks out like a sore thumb:
'Of the complaints we investigate ea...
Transparency has been on the agenda for some time:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/when_will_the_new_transparency_b#comment-106689
Table 2: Time taken to reach decisions in cases between 2018–19 and 2020–21 (page 8)
First Report - Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman Scrut...
I today received a response from the FTT's Chamber President's Office with regard to the questions I asked below. The response does not make things any...
This should perhaps better be described as refused.
I had already anticipated this, so I have asked the Chamber President of the FTT for the informat...
Link to register (Updated 26 April 2021):
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/information-rights-register-of-tribunal-cases/first-tier-tribuna...
On hiding information:
'25. It is clear in this case that the DWP did not approach this request in the way that it should have done. If the Appellant...
Recent UT decision overturns sanction relating to a failure to participate in a UC telephone interview:
KG-v-SSWP (UC) [2020] UKUT 307(AAC)
The im...
Dear InformationRights,
We know who signed-off the revised review policy, but who actually revised it?
We have waited nearly two years for the revi...
The information provided doesn't really address the question or the issue. It is impossible to disaggregate the information and therefore we do not lea...
Dr Bruce Newsome writes:
'According to heart-breaking testimonials, most complainants are treated by PHSO staff as time-wasters, liars, idiots, fanta...
https://www.ombudsman.org.uk/sites/default/files/The%20Ombudsman%E2%80%99s%20Annual%20Report%20and%20Accounts%202019-2020_
The Annual Report has reap...
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Dear M Boyce,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 11th
November.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
DWP Centr...
Dear M Boyce,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 1st
November.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
DWP Centra...
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So what is the ICO playing at now? It nowhere mentions the aggregation issue in its PIT guidance.
It says, with regard to its Public Interest Test (P...
https://cy.ico.org.uk/for-organisations/foi/freedom-of-information-and-environmental-information-regulations/the-public-interest-test/
Time line:
April 2022 - Important case law of Montague published - lays out when public authorities and the ICO and tribunals must respond to request...
Judge Wikeley says that the law on section 14 FOIA and post-request events is not 'as' uncertain as I claim it is. He says that the case law of Montagu...
This is the very last time I will correspond with you. I cannot be bothered to say anything else to you. I'm right and you are wrong - as always. End...
I have not attacked any individual caseworker. I have described caseworkers as incompetent, because some of them are.
Your attacks are personal, and...
I was hoping for a constructive dialogue on this thread, but that is clearly never going to happen with you. Your dialogue is just a string of insultin...
It's not me that's being insulting; it's you. Caseworkers are not adequately trained for the important job that they do. The majority of 'their' decisi...
It is not nonsense to say that ICO caseworkers do not know enough about public law, and specifically the FOIA and the EIR. It is a very large subject....
Of course case law does change with time, but the principle of stare decisis is there for a reason - so that everyone is supposed to be singing from th...
The concept of vexatiousness in an FOI context is indeed a protean one, but the refining case law should must certainly not be. You will know more than...
I've already countered it, as you would know if you had looked at the evidence. Case law should offer a high degree of certainty, that at the very leas...
You say that I show a complete misunderstanding of the law because this particular law will always be uncertain.
Yeah alright, If you say so.
The ICO are legally required to respond by tomorrow. Will they?
This is the fundamental question to the request: if a review cannot be taken into acc...
So, Tim Turner says that the confusion around the law on section 14 and post-request events is 'not important' and Jonathan Baines says it is 'not pres...
I've never told you to stop talking. If you think the issue is not important then of course you are entitled to say so.
The issue I have raised is n...
ICO caseworkers do not write the guidance notes at the ICO - they merely follow it.
You think that just because something may be unimportant to you t...
I don't include ordinary caseworkers as part of the Establishment. The Establishment is those who run the show - such as those in governance of quango...
Fallibility is no excuse for inaction and denial. If the Establishment has got something seriously wrong is it not right to put it right? That's why th...
Actually Judge Wikeley does contradict himself, in the sense that he offers a contradictory approach.
He says that post-request events cannot be take...
Let me put this as simply as possible, so that everyone can understand, does the case law of Soh say that post-request events can be taken into account...
OK, on reflection Judge Wikeley does not contradict himself, but he categorically incorrectly states the case law of Soh. He says that Soh says that po...
In Upper Tribunal Appeal UA-2023-001646-GIA, dated 17 November 2023, Judge Wikeley, lead judge of the Upper Tribunal, states the following:
'..Upper...
Yes I understand that, but the example you suggest does not answer the question. You will know that an authority has 20 working days to respond to an...
Thanks for your annotation, but I'm struggling to see the relevance to the question I posed.
Would you be kind enough to explain?