IC v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and Access Social Care: [2025] UKUT 177 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Wikeley on 10 June 2025.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
• Published: 1 July 2025

• Categories: Information rights and Tribunal procedure and practice
• Sub-categories: Information rights - Information rights: practice and procedure, Tribunal procedure and practice - leave/permission to appeal and Tribunal procedure and practice - tribunal practice
• Judges: Wikeley, N
• Decision date: 10 June 2025

Read the full decision in UA-2025-000146-GIA.

Judicial Summary

In an appeal brought by the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC), the FTT (First-tier Tribunal) directed that the Information Commissioner prepare the open bundle and the DHSC prepare the closed bundle. The Information Commissioner applied for permission to appeal against the FTT’s case management direction (CMD) on bundle preparation on the ground that (i) the FTT had given no reasons for the CMD; and (ii) the direction was unreasonable and contrary to the overriding objective. The Upper Tribunal refused permission to appeal.

Published 1 July 2025