Court action and related complaints – Mr Gupta requested from the Scottish Court Service (the SCS) information relating to the handling of a court action and related complaints. The SCS responded by advising him that the court records were available to him for inspection. Following a review, where the SCS provided a more detailed response to his request, Mr Gupta remained dissatisfied and applied to the Commissioner for a decision.
Following an investigation, the Commissioner found that the SCS had generally dealt with Mr Gupta’s request for information in accordance with Part 1 of FOISA. It had been entitled to withhold information as court records or information otherwise accessible to Mr Gupta, and also to give Mr Gupta notice that it did not hold certain of the information. However, the Commissioner did identify technical failures in the content of the SCS’s initial refusal notice.
Citations:
[2012] ScotIC 113 – 2012)
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Scotland
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Updated: 12 November 2022; Ref: scu.466846