M Boyce (Account suspended)
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 123)
Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland v The Information Commissioner [2024] UKFTT 719 (GRC)
'75. Mr Dunford commented on the Boyc...
The ICO regularly trashing its own published guidance on vexatious requests.
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by M Boyce. Annotated by JtOakley (Account suspended) on .
Refused
Thank you J Roberts and M Boyce
I am now in a situation where Monmouthshire County Council has stated that it has NO information on how jobs are lin...
The PHSO non-CCT review process and the PHSO re-opening process.
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by M Boyce. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Long overdue
Yes I do.
The ICO and the PHSO cannot ever be trusted to fairly investigate each other, as they not only have skin in the game, they have their whole...
Legal advice on the Montague case law regarding reviews of decisions.
Response by Information Commissioner's Office to M Boyce on .
Refused
10 June 2024
Case Reference: IC-302035-R5W0
Dear M. Boyce,
Please find attached our response to your internal review request.
Yours sincerely...
Does a review of a decision fall inside or outside the cut off point for evidence that a request is vexatious?
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by M Boyce. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Reported for administrator attention
Reported by whom, and for what reason?
ICO legal advice on post-request events and section 14 FOIA (vexatious).
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by M Boyce. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Information not held
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...
The ICO piling pressure on the First-tier Tribunal to save its own scarce resources.
Response by Information Commissioner's Office to M Boyce on .
Refused
18 August 2023
Case Reference: IC-239613-H8F4
Dear M Boyce,
Please find enclosed our response to your request for an internal review
received...
The cut off point for evidence that a request is vexatious.
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by M Boyce. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Partially successful
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...
Latest PHSO review and feedback guidance.
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to M Boyce on .
Successful
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...
Draft Public Service Ombudsman Bill now not fit for purpose.
Partially successful
Transparency has been on the agenda for some time:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/when_will_the_new_transparency_b#comment-106689
Time taken to investigate cases
Successful
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...
How Tribunal panels decide appeals.
Request to HM Courts and Tribunals Service by M Boyce. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Refused
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...
Applications to appeal a decision of the First-tier Tribunal to the Upper Tribunal.
Request to HM Courts and Tribunals Service by M Boyce. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Information not held
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...
Number of people sanctioned for missing just one JSA appointment.
Awaiting internal review
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...
Review and Feedback Team (RAFT) guidance 2020
Follow up sent to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by M Boyce on .
Partially successful
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...
Number of ICO caseworkers working reduced hours due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by M Boyce. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Partially successful
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...
Judicial reviews of PHSO reviews of final reports
Partially successful
Dr Bruce Newsome writes:
'According to heart-breaking testimonials, most complainants are treated by PHSO staff as time-wasters, liars, idiots, fanta...
Number of PHSO fresh/new investigations conducted directly after the final report.
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by M Boyce. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Refused
https://www.ombudsman.org.uk/sites/default/files/The%20Ombudsman%E2%80%99s%20Annual%20Report%20and%20Accounts%202019-2020_
The Annual Report has reap...
To review evidence (the substance of an investigation), or not to review evidence, that is the question.
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to M Boyce on .
Refused
Thank you for contacting the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s
(PHSO) Freedom of Information and Data Protection Team. This is to confirm...
Closing a claim for UC and receiving a final payment.
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to M Boyce on .
Partially successful
Dear M Boyce,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 11th
November.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
DWP Centr...
Making a fresh/new claim for Universal Credit.
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to M Boyce on .
Partially successful
Dear M Boyce,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 1st
November.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
DWP Centra...
The legal no man's land of the sham PHSO review process.
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by M Boyce. Annotated by phsothefacts Pressure Group on .
Refused
Very interesting.
This person's 1242 annotations
The ICO regularly trashing its own published guidance on vexatious requests.
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by M Boyce. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Refused
Thanks for posting this J Roberts.
It adds weight to the view that the ICO will, in the majority of cases, always take a public authority's side agai...
Frivolous and vexatious cases refused under s.50(2)(c) of the FOIA from 2020/21 to 2023/24.
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by J Roberts. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Partially successful
Do you know of any examples at all of the Information Commissioner saying 'we have got something wrong, and we will put it right'?
I am not familiar...
Complainant evidence deleted from IT system - before given to caseworkers
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by JtOakley. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Awaiting internal review
Yes.
The ICO regularly trashing its own published guidance on vexatious requests.
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by M Boyce. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Refused
Thanks for this Jt Oakley. It's certainly another option.
This request has the best chance so far of getting somewhere with regard to section 14 and...
The ICO regularly trashing its own published guidance on vexatious requests.
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by M Boyce. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Refused
And now we have another Judge who does not appear to know the law:
https://assets.caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukftt/grc/2024/581/ukftt_grc_2024_5...
Frivolous and vexatious cases refused under s.50(2)(c) of the FOIA from 2020/21 to 2023/24.
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by J Roberts. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Partially successful
Very interesting and very serious.
I've raised the issue of possible deletion of evidence by the ICO and they have come back swinging.
The ICO regularly trashing its own published guidance on vexatious requests.
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by M Boyce. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Refused
In my appeal to the FTT about the above decision from and solely regarding the ICO, the GRC (perhaps on the request of the ICO) asked the PHSO if they...
The ICO regularly trashing its own published guidance on vexatious requests.
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by M Boyce. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Refused
Thanks Jt Oakley. Your endorsement is very welcome.
I am now in the process of writing my reply to the Commissioner's Response but, as in my last app...
The ICO regularly trashing its own published guidance on vexatious requests.
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by M Boyce. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Refused
A couple of days ago I received the Commissioner's Response to my appeal to the FTT on this request. It is very interesting and very incoherent.
In p...
The PHSO non-CCT review process and the PHSO re-opening process.
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by M Boyce. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Long overdue
Yes I do.
The ICO and the PHSO cannot ever be trusted to fairly investigate each other, as they not only have skin in the game, they have their whole...
The PHSO non-CCT review process and the PHSO re-opening process.
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by M Boyce. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Long overdue
J Roberts, thanks for reminding me about that particular request and thread. Very revealing. I will be making another appeal to the FTT tomorrow and I...
The PHSO non-CCT review process and the PHSO re-opening process.
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by M Boyce. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Long overdue
It is very difficult to prove beyond any doubt that when two powerful organisations are tasked with mutually investigating each other that there has be...
The PHSO non-CCT review process and the PHSO re-opening process.
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by M Boyce. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Long overdue
When an individual has an FOI request refused by the PHSO, can they ever truly trust the Information Commissioner's Office to investigate fairly?
Th...
The PHSO non-CCT review process and the PHSO re-opening process.
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by M Boyce. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Long overdue
https://ico.org.uk/media/action-weve-taken/decision-notices/2024/4029934/ic-275084-t3n8.pdf
The above is the most recent DN related to this request....
The ICO regularly trashing its own published guidance on vexatious requests.
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by M Boyce. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Refused
Not interested.
The ICO regularly trashing its own published guidance on vexatious requests.
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by M Boyce. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Refused
'If such examples exist they must be very small in number.'
Legal advice on the Montague case law regarding reviews of decisions.
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by M Boyce. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Refused
The ICO Guidance on PIT says that Montague states that internal reviews CAN be taken into account if they throw light on the situation as at the time o...
Legal advice on the Montague case law regarding reviews of decisions.
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by M Boyce. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Refused
The case law of Montague, and Judge Wikeley, has got it wrong: internal reviews should be able to be taken into account IF, and only if, they throw lig...
Legal advice on the Montague case law regarding reviews of decisions.
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by M Boyce. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Refused
Taking into account internal reviews may not be admissible in statutory terms, but it appears to be admissible in case law terms.
Statute law takes...
Legal advice on the Montague case law regarding reviews of decisions.
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by M Boyce. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Refused
Unfortunately I don't have the FTT link.
The paragraphs with your highlighted points are indeed saying essentially the same thing.
Summary paragrap...
Legal advice on the Montague case law regarding reviews of decisions.
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by M Boyce. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Refused
Paragraphs 72 and 73 of Evans.
Legal advice on the Montague case law regarding reviews of decisions.
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by M Boyce. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Refused
Let's try this example:
A public authority (say the ICO) finds a request vexatious. The requester asks for an internal review. The internal review up...
Legal advice on the Montague case law regarding reviews of decisions.
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by M Boyce. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Refused
J Roberts, you raise some very perceptive points. Will try to address shortly.
Legal advice on the Montague case law regarding reviews of decisions.
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by M Boyce. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Refused
Just to correct the above post:
Evans (Supreme Court) is the higher authority and NOT Montague (an Upper Tribunal, albeit a three judges one).
Sure...
Legal advice on the Montague case law regarding reviews of decisions.
Request to Information Commissioner's Office by M Boyce. Annotated by M Boyce (Account suspended) on .
Refused
The AS or AS AT the time issue is confusing, but the Supreme Court judgement of Evans makes it very clear that post-request events/evidence can be admi...