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Ministry of Justice (Decision Notice) [2013] UKICO FS50504235 (16 December 2013)
Summary: The complainant requested information relating to computer systems used by Her Majesty-™s Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS). HMCTS did not consider the requests to be valid requests for information under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act (the Act) and treated them instead as official correspondence. The Commissioner-™s decision is that two of the requests made by the complainant are valid under the terms of the Act and should have been handled as such. The remaining request is not valid under the terms of the Act. In addition, HMCTS has breached section 10 of the Act in respect of the two valid requests. Whilst a response has been issued which provided the recorded information held, it was done so after the 20 working day maximum limit afforded by the Act. No further action is required. The complainant has also appealed to the Commissioner that HMCTS breached section 19 of the Act by not having certain information which is available on the website of the Ministry of Justice (of which HMCTS is an executive agency) listed in its publication scheme. The Commissioner-™s decision is that this is not a breach of section 19 and no further action is required.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 10 - Complaint Upheld, FOI 19 - Complaint Not upheld