Summary: The complainant requested Coventry City Council (the council) to provide him with several court orders. The council refused the requested information under section 32 (court records) and section 40 (personal data). The Commissioner-™s decision is that the council correctly applied the exemption for court records to the complainant-™s request. He requires no steps to be taken. However, the council has breached the requirements of section 1(1) in relation to one part of the request where the information was -˜not held-™ at the time of the request. The council has also breached section 10(1) of FOIA because it failed to tell the complainant about this within 20 working days of his request.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 1 - Complaint Partly Upheld, FOI 10 - Complaint Upheld