Who may lodge a written objection to a non-disclosure or partial-disclosure decision, on what grounds, and against which body?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
The practice file holds the original request for disclosure, the public institution's notification of a non-disclosure or partial-disclosure decision with its date, and the written objection with the date the institution received it. Each paper bears on which of the two grounds applies and when the period began.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading takes the provision as written: only the requester may act, and only where dissatisfied with a decision refusing disclosure or granting it in part, or where no decision came within the period the provision sets after the request. The objection must go to that same public institution, in writing, within the period the provision sets from the notification date or from the day that period of silence ended.
Another reading stresses that the provision names the requester and no one else, so a third party seeking the same information, having made no request, has no route here; the provision also leaves open how an objection filed through an agent should be framed in whose name.
Your judgment
Where no decision was notified, does the file fix the date the period of silence ended, so the window can be counted from the correct event?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision is amended to change who may apply or when the window opens, or if a court decision on this provision states whether a person other than the requester may object.