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

Waiting for an internal review by Judicial Office for England and Wales of their handling of this request.

Dear Judicial Office for England and Wales,

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

Data Access & Compliance Unit, Judicial Office for England and Wales

Thank you for your e-mail, I am writing to advise you that your enquiry does not fall under the Freedom of Information regime and will be treated by the department as Official Correspondence.
 
It may be helpful if I explain that the Freedom of Information Act (2000) gives individuals and organisations the right of access to all types of recorded information held, at the time the request is received, by public authorities such as the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). Section 84 of the Act states that in order for a request for information to be handled as a Freedom of Information (FOI) request, it must be for recorded information. For example, a Freedom of Information request would be for a copy of a policy, rather than an explanation as to why we have that policy in place. On occasion, the Ministry of Justice receives requests that do not ask for recorded information, but ask more general questions about, for example, a policy, opinion or a decision.
 
This will be dealt with as Official Correspondence and you can expect a response from the appropriate area of the department.
 
If you do have any questions relating specifically to the Freedom of Information or Data Protection Act, please contact the Data Access and Compliance Unit at the following e-mail address: [email address

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Dear Judicial Office for England and Wales,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Judicial Office for England and Wales's handling of my FOI request 'H.M.C.T.S. Breach of FOIA - The County Court Hearing Centres species cases'.

My request was for specific information held under the FOIA and if now overdue.

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

Yours faithfully,

Mr Frankham