Crown Prosecution Service
- Date 6 February 2017
- Sector Police and criminal justice
- Decision(s) FOI 10: Upheld, FOI 14: Not upheld, FOI 17: Upheld, FOI 21: Not upheld, FOI 27: Not upheld
The complainant has requested information relating to Mr Julian Assange. The Crown Prosecution Service applied sections 40(2) (Personal information), 27(1) and (2) (International relations), 30(1)(c) (Investigations and proceedings) of the FOIA to some of the information. It also neither confirmed nor denied holding some information by virtue of section 27(4)(a) (International relations) and applied section 14 (Vexatious request) of the FOIA to the remainder. During the Commissioner’s investigation, the CPS also confirmed that it was applying section 21 (information reasonably accessible by other means) of the FOIA to some information. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Crown Prosecution Service has applied sections 27(1) and (2), 27(4), 21 and 14 of the FOIA, appropriately. However the Commissioner considers that the CPS has breached sections 10(1) and 17(1) of the FOIA. The Commissioner does not require the Crown Prosecution Service to any steps as a result of this decision. This decision notice is currently under appeal to the Tribunal.