FS50807818

The complainant requested information regarding complaints about coroners. The Ministry of Justice has withheld some information under section 44 (Prohibitions on disclosure) of the FOIA by virtue of section 139 of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 and section 40(2) (Personal information) of the FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Ministry of Justice has applied…

FS50879723

The complainant has made several requests for information from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (‘PSNI’) relating to traffic management companies engaged by the PSNI for events in certain named towns in Northern Ireland.  The PSNI responded to 8 of the requests, however it then applied section 14(1) of the FOIA to the complainant’s subsequent…

FS50878095

The complainant requested information from the West Midlands Combined Authority (“WMCA”) relating to the Midlands Connect Rail Programme. The Commissioner’s decision is that WMCA has failed to respond to the request within 20 working days and has therefore breached section 10 of the FOIA. The Commissioner requires WMCA to take the following steps to ensure…

148/2019 : 26 November 2019 – Opinion of the Advocate General in cases C-566/19PPU, C-626/19 PPU,C-625/19 PPU, C-627/19 PPU

Parquet général du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg Area of Freedom, Security and Justice Advocate General Campos Sánchez-Bordona: the judicial authority which issues a European arrest warrant must be fully independent and must not be subject to hierarchical constraints or to orders or instructions Powered by WPeMatico

146/2019 : 26 November 2019 – Opinion of the Advocate General in the case C-610/18

AFMB and Others Social security for migrant workers According to Advocate General Pikamäe, the employer of lorry drivers employed in the international road transport sector is the transport undertaking which recruited those drivers for an indefinite period, exercises effective control over the drivers and actually bears the wage costs Powered by WPeMatico

147/2019 : 26 November 2019 – Opinion of the Advocate General in the case C-717/18

Procureur-generaal (Mandat d’arrêt européen) Area of Freedom, Security and Justice AG Bobek: when assessing the maximum threshold period imposed by the Framework Decision on the European arrest warrant in order to surrender a requested person without verification of the criterion of double criminality, the relevant law of the issuing Member State is the one actually…