Leighton v The Information Commissioner: [2019] UKUT 378 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Church on 4 December 2019.

From:
HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
Published
16 January 2020
Categories:
Information rights
Judges:
Church, TH
Decision date:
4 December 2019

Read the full decision in GIA/1148/2019.

Judicial Summary

Information Rights – identifying decision under appeal; whether incumbent on judge to explain what she made of Appellant’s argument that his delay in appealing the decision of the Information Commissioner was due to his following her advice in her decision that he should pursue his request under the Data Protection Act and not the Freedom of Information Act; whether judge should have included this in the balance when considering whether to extend time for making appeal and to admit the appeal.

Updates to this page

Published 16 January 2020