Ewa Sygulska v (1) The Information Commissioner (2) The Ministry of Defence: [2019] UKUT 269 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge West on 29 August 2019.

Read the full decision in GIA/1243/2019

Judicial Summary

Information rights – request for disclosure of World War 2 service records – s.40 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) - application of condition 6(1) of Schedule 2 of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) - Ministry Of Defence policy that, in the absence of proof of death, the data subject should be presumed to be alive until the 116th anniversary of his birth.

Published 30 October 2019