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Access to information - The Supreme Court
The UK Supreme Court's Information Charter, freedom of information and data protection policies and publication scheme are available via the following links:
UKSC Information Charter
Publication Scheme of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom FOI responses
This information charter sets out the standards that you can expect from the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (UKSC) when we request or hold personal information about you;
how you can get access to your personal data;
and what you can do if you think standards are not being met.
Personal 'data' is information that relates to living individuals. It does not include information relating to dead people, groups or communities of people, organisations or businesses. The Data Protection Act 1998 regulates the management of personal information.
The Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO) will ensure that information security policies and procedures are reviewed and implemented across business functions ensuring ongoing continuous improvement. These policies aim to ensure that the requirements of confidentiality, integrity and availability are maintained at each stage in the information lifecycle. The Departmental Records Officer is responsible for responding to requests for information. The SIRO deals with complaints about how we have handled your request. His contact details are:
william.arnold@supremecourt.uk
The Information Asset Owners manage and monitor the whole of the information lifecycle from the creation of documents through to deletion. They are also responsible for ensuring that their staff are compliant with all policies and procedures.
All staff and contractors are trained in and are aware of their responsibilities as set out in the UKSC's policies.
The UKSC holds both personal and non-personal information which is critical to its judicial activities, together with systems relating to its support functions such as human resources, facilities and finance.
We manage, maintain and protect all information according to legislation and best practices.
We have security measures in place to maintain and safeguard the confidentiality, integrity and availability of our systems and data. All information is stored, processed and communicated in a secure manner making it readily available to authorised users.
We know how important it is to protect individuals' privacy and to comply with the Data Protection Act. We will safeguard your information and in most circumstances will not disclose personal data without consent. If we ask you for personal information we will:
let you know if we share it with other organisations; and
You have a statutory right of access (certain exceptions apply) to personal data about yourself under the Data Protection Act. The right of access here is to personal data held on computer or on structured manual files and you are entitled to be informed of any personal data:
concerning yourself being held by the UKSC and if so,
to be told of the recipients or classes of recipients to whom the data are, or may be disclosed.
You are also entitled to be given a copy of the information with any unintelligible terms explained and to be given any information available to UKSC as to the source of the data. The Freedom of Information Act extends this right to personal data held on any type of file. If you wish to apply for access to your personal data known as a "subject access request", you should write to:
Requests for access to personal data must be dealt with promptly and in any event within 40 days of receipt of sufficient information to be able to trace the data requested. We may charge a fee, not exceeding £10.00. It is our policy to charge a £10 fee.
However, if your personal data is filed with or placed in the custody of the UKSC for the purposes of court proceedings or created by the UKSC, or a member of the administrative staff of the UKSC for the purposes of court proceedings the exemption under section 34 of the DP Act applies. To access such information you should make an application under Rule 39(3) which provides for documents held by the Court to be inspected on formal application to the Registrar by completing Form 2 for which a fee is payable. There are additional charges for photocopies of documents.
When we ask you for information, we will keep to the law. If you consider that your information has been handled incorrectly you can contact the Information Commissioner for independent advice about data protection, privacy and data-sharing issues.
Publication Scheme of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (UKSC)
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOI Act) encourages public authorities to make as much information as possible available to the public proactively. It establishes a general right of access to all types of recorded information held by public authorities; sets out exemptions from that right and places a number of obligations on public authorities. Under the Act, you are entitled to make a request for information held by the UKSC :
to be informed in writing by the UKSC whether it holds information of the description specified in your request and
Some information may not be available because it falls within one of the exemptions of the FOI Act. When that happens, we will tell you which exemption applies and, in most cases, why the information cannot be released. There is no right of access under the FOI Act to information contained in court records as section 32 gives an absolute exemption from disclosure of such information. This exemption applies regardless of the content of the information.
Access to the UKSC's court records is dealt with in Rule 39 of the Supreme Court Rules. Rule 39(3) provides that all documents held by the Court may be inspected by the press or members of the public on application to the Registrar. The rules provide a procedure for such applications by completing Form 2 and a fee is payable. There are additional charges for photocopies of documents. The Registrar may refuse an application for reasons of commercial confidentiality, national security or in the public interest.
All FOI requests must be dealt with within 20 working days. The Act also provides for an appeal mechanism whereby you may apply to the Information Commissioner for a decision as to whether we dealt with your request in accordance with the Act. In accordance with section 12 of the Act we will not comply with a request where we estimate that the work involved will exceed the 'appropriate limit' of £600 or 24 hours staff time. We will, however, provide advice and assistance so that requests might be refined or limited to come within the cost limit.
Regulation 6 of the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate limit and Fees) Regulations 2004 sets out the activities that can be charged for in complying with any requests. These include the cost of photocopying, printing and postage. We will contact you to let you know the cost of dealing with your request before we action it and this will be payable in advance.
A publication scheme is a commitment routinely and proactively to provide information to the public. It explains what information is routinely made available, where and when that information is available and whether there will be a charge for supplying the information.
We make a significant amount of information available under our scheme. One of its benefits is that it makes information easily accessible and without charge. This means that, in many cases, the information you are looking for will already be available and there will be no need for you to make a formal request under the FOI Act.
The Director of Corporate Services has overall responsibility for the Publication Scheme.
The Publication Scheme is maintained by our Freedom of Information team:
We will also publish our responses to certain requests under FOI from the opening of the UKSC on 1 October 2009. We do not publish every request, only those that have a wider general interest. These are placed on the website and can be read or printed off as PDF files.
When the information is available on the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom's website a link will be provided. There is no charge for information available on the website, but the user would of course have to meet any charges by their internet service provider, personal printing, costs etc.). For those without internet access a single print on the website would be available by post, at the above contact address. However, requests for multiple print outs or for archived copies of documents which are no longer available on the web, will attract a charge for the cost of retrieval, photocopying, postage etc. We will contact you to let you know the cost of dealing with your request before we action it and this would be payable in advance.
If you ask for information available on our website to be provided in paper format it may be necessary to make a charge. Each case is considered separately, for example, if a large amount of photocopying is required, or if the cost of postage of a large volume of paperwork is high. If that is the case we will contact you to let you know the cost of dealing with your request before we action it and this would be payable in advance.
4. In person at the UKSC
Free of charge to view at the Court, but we will charge for photocopying for multiple prints.
We manage our information in accordance with our records retention and disposal schedule in order to ensure that we operate sound records management procedures. This means that some information will not be available indefinitely through the publication scheme but we are committed to providing the public with as much information as is practically possible. It is also important that the information we provide is relevant and up to date.
Most of the information we provide is currently only available in English. Part of our website is available in Welsh translation as are the Court's forms.
Our Mission and Strategic Objectives
Our current and past Business Plans
UKSC Practice Directions
UKSC contact details:
Freedom of Information and Data Protection enquiries
Our current and past Supply Estimates contained in our Business Plans
Financial Accounts contained in our Annual Report and Accounts
Register of interests and expenses
Procurement policy and tendering procedures. A list of procurement contracts is available on request
Hospitality register (available on request)
Minutes of UKSC Management Board meetings
Minutes of UKSC User Group meetings
Public consultations - open and closed
The current term's Cause List
Requests for information under the Environmental Information Regulation(EIR)
If you wish to make a request for information under the Environmental Information Regulation (EIR) please write to:
Requests for personal information: The Data Protection Act 1998 (DP Act)
You have a statutory right of access (certain exceptions apply) to personal data about yourself under the DP Act. The right of access here is to personal data held on computer or on structured manual files and you are entitled to be informed of any personal data concerning yourself being held by the UKSC and if so,
You are also entitled to be given a copy of the information with any unintelligible terms explained and to be given any information available to UKSC as to the source of the data. The FOI Act extends this right to personal data held on any type of file. If you wish to apply for access to your personal data known as a "subject access request", you should write to our Freedom of Information team whose contact details are given above.
However, if your personal data is filed with or placed in the custody of the UKSC for the purposes of proceedings or created by the UKSC, or a member of the administrative staff of the UKSC for the purposes of proceedings the exemption under section 34 of the DP Act applies. To access such information you should make an application under Rule 39(3) which provides for documents held by the Court to be inspected on formal application to the Registrar by completing Form 2 for which a fee is payable. There are additional charges for photocopies of documents.
The material listed in this Publication Scheme is covered by Crown copyright unless otherwise stated. You may re-use the Crown copyright protected material (not including the Royal Arms and other departmental logos) free of charge in any format for noncommercial research, private study or internal circulation within your organisation. The material must be acknowledged as Crown copyright and you must give the title of the source document/publication.
For further information on Crown copyright policy and licensing arrangements, see the guidance featured on The National Archives website at: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/guidance/c.htm Comments and complaints about the Publication Scheme If you have any comments about our Publication Scheme, or if you think we have not supplied information in accordance with our scheme, then you should write, in the first instance to: