Information Commissioner's Office

Summary: The complainant has requested information which refers to the trial of Vojislav Seselj at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (-�ICTY-�). The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (-�FCO-�) provided some information but refused to provide the remainder citing provisions of section 27 (International Relations) and section 35 (Formulation/Development of Government policy) as its basis for refusal. The Commissioner-�s decision is that FCO is entitled to withhold the majority of the information under 3 provisions of section 27. However, it should disclose a small amount of personal data that it previously withheld. In failing to provide this personal data, it contravened the requirements of section 1 and 10 of the Act. It also contravened the requirements of section 17 when it took an unreasonable amount of time to conduct a balance of public interest test. The Commissioner requires the public authority to disclose the names listed in a Confidential Annex to this Notice by reinstating them into the documents it has already disclosed and then supplying those documents to the complainant. It is entitled to withhold the remainder of the information in those documents which has not already been disclosed.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 10 - Complaint Upheld, FOI 17 - Complaint Upheld, FOI 27 - Complaint Not upheld