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.
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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.