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Mr Mark Thorogood

Information Commissioner Posted on Sat, October 05, 2013 06:38:16

Email sent Tuesday, October 01, 2013 7:35 AM to Richard Bailey, ICO

Dear Mr Bailey

As you are aware, I have made formal complaints against your conduct to your immediate line manager, Mr Mark Thorogood, and he has failed to take such matters seriously.

Please provide me with a contact name and email address for the appropriate governance officer within the FOIA organisation, where I can submit my formal complaints regard you and Mr Thorogood and in particular the handling and failures of my two main FOIA requests i.e.,GIA/3037/2011 and EA/2010/0152.

I have particular concerns regard the ICO’s usage of my GIA case since January this year in support of court authority of vexatious decisions handed down by the ICO. The ICO knew that my GIA /3037/2011 case is/was subject to a Court of Appeal and therefore cannot be used as a Court Authority/ Precedence until entered into the statute book.

My complaint now includes legal failings against the ICO legal advisors and you in particular because you are a solicitor .

Any first year solicitor graduate should/ must be aware of sub judice ruling for which you and the ICO have shown scant regard.

I am also very concerned at the libellous comments against me currently in the public domain in the ICO Vexatious 37 page guidance notes dated May 2013.

With thanks

Alan M Dransfield



The unsafe usage of the vexatious ruling

Information Commissioner Posted on Sun, September 08, 2013 17:57:30

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/correspondence_between_carmarthe

http://www.carmarthenshire.gov.uk/English/news/Pages/judgmentinlibelaction.aspx



Unsafe adoption of vexatious ruling

Information Commissioner Posted on Sun, September 08, 2013 17:53:37

Email sent 14th June 2013 at 8.03 AM

Chief Executive Mark James
County Hall
Carmarthen
Carmarthenshire
SA31 1JP

Dear Mr James

I write to you to alert your office of a grave miscarriage of justice if you proceed with your libel case against Miss Thompson and would ask you to to reconsider your position, as I feel it could result in serious adverse affects for the CCC.

Firstly, please allow me to introduce myself, my name is Alan M Dransfield from Exeter and I am the subject of a Court Authority, which your legal team is relying upon v Miss Thompson,i.e GIA/3037/2011 Alan M Dransfield v ICO&Devon County Council.

There is prima facie evidence in the public domain that the GIA/3037/2011 is seriously flawed and illegal, and I would envisage this decision will be revoked in the near future. Please don’t take my word for this and I invite you to read the Operation Maintenance Manual (OMM) for the Exeter Chiefs Rugby Bridge (ECRB) which is in the public domain. This document contains irrefutable evidence that the GIA/3037/2011 vexatious decision is unsafe and unlawful.

Moreover and more importantly, the recent ICO 37 page guidance document was also compiled on the back of the GIA/3037/2011 case; I would assume this Legal Advice will soon be withdrawn also.

I think it would be foolish of the CCC to pursue your libel Charges against Miss Thompson and I ask you to reconsider your position based on the flimsy evidence of the GIA/3037/2011 case authority

With thanks

Yours sincerely

Alan M Dransfieldc



Defamation

Information Commissioner Posted on Sun, September 08, 2013 17:36:27

Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2013 9:08 AM

Subject: LEGAL REDRESS AGAINST THE INFORMATION COMMISSIONER FOR LIBEL AND DEFAMATION OF CHARACTER

Attn the Information Commissioner

Dear Sir

Please ensure this letter is passed to the Information Commissioner in person. I would also be grateful if you would pass this onto the DCC also, because similar libel and defamation charges will be brought against the DCC.

I put you on notice that I am seeking legal advice because I believe the ICO has libelled me in their 37 page Vexatious Guidelines, and in particular the following statement:-

“A manifestly unjustified, inappropriate or improper use of a formal procedure.”

The publication of the Operation Maintenance Manual (OMM) for the Exeter Chiefs Rugby Bridge which was available (not to me) at the time of the UT Case Hearing does, in my view, support my allegation that Judge Wikeley has libelled me via his Court Authority in GIA/3037/2011 and in particular his above comments and ditto for the ICO in their recent publication of their 37 Page Vexatious Guidelines Document.

We now know the above comments from Judge Wikeley could not be further from the truth, and we also know that no person applying a right and proper mind could have made such a statement, which, incidentally, does not appear in Judge Wikeley Case Notes from the hearing!

…… and the Information Commissioner himself knew or should have known that the BOLD statement above was a LIE.

Conversely, I could counter-claim the exact same statement made by Judge Wikeley ref his decision and the ICO Guidlines Document. Moreover and more importantly, I would add that Judge Wikeley has used a perverse mindset to make the bold statement above and the ICO has also applied a perverse mindset when using the GIA/3037/2011 Court Authority in their Guidance Guidelines published approx 2 weeks ago…..

……Not only have the ICO disseminated further Libel in their Publication of the 37 page Vexatious Guidelines , they have defamed my good name by malicious and wilfull statements such as above in bold font.

I rely on the afforementioned OMM for the Rugby Bridge document, which was recently published by the DCC, to support my libel and Defamation claims against the ICO and HM Courts.

In the interest of Justice, I suggest/recommend you do the following:-

1. An immediate withdrawal and an apology to HM Courts for misleading … HM Courts.

2.An immediate withdrawal from your website of the 37 page document of Vexatious Guidelines

3.An Immediate public apology to be made to me in the paper of my choice and the contents of the apology to be agreed with me before publication.

4.An immediate financial compensation package to be offered to me for the libel and defamation charges against me.

For your information, action and files

with thanks

Yours sincerely

Alan M DransfielW



What on Earth is going on at the Information Commissioner’s Office?

Information Commissioner Posted on Sun, September 08, 2013 14:54:45


Vexatious Request Documentation

Information Commissioner Posted on Sun, September 08, 2013 14:28:11

Email sent – June 02, 2013 6:03 AM
Subject: Re: FOIA REQUEST TO THE ICO

Dear Mr Bailey

Please treat this as an official FOIA request and I would be grateful if you would pass this onto the Information Commissioner in person.

Please provide me with the following information related to the recent publication of the new 37 Page Vexatious Request Documentation, published 15th May2013.

1.Who made the final decision that New Criteria and guidance was required?

2.Copies of all letters, emails, internal memos on any related issue with the new 37 page document.

3.Total costs for the documentation

4.Who from the ICO authorised this document?

5.Was the 37 page document reviewed by the ICO Legal Department; if so please provided the approved Legal Advisor’s signature.

6. Did the ICO consult any 3rd parties on this new vexatious document; if so please provide copies of such consultation.

7. Did the ICO consult the Upper Tribunal or the Department of Justice before they published the 37 page vexatious guidelines; if so please provide letter or email both ways.

8. Please provide any documentation or instruction you may hold which authorises ICO Officers or ICO Barristers to compile final Decision Notices for approval signatures of the Upper Tribunals Final Decision Notices.

I appreciate that any FOIA request is motive blind by the FOIA 2000, but I have no reservations in informing you that I require such information from the ICO because I fervently believe the 37 page vexatious document is UNLAWFUL and I believe it is a criminal tool,designed and created by the ICO to assist the passage of fraud and theft of public funds and is part of a wider conspiracy to pervert the course of Justice by unfettered access to ROGUE VEXATIOUS DECISIONS on a whim,eg.GIA/3037/2011.

The ICO vexatious guideline is based on my GIA/3037/2011 decision, Alan M Dransfield V ICO&DCC dated 28th Jan 2013.

At this Juncture, that Statute Court Authority remains lawful, but owing to the recent publication of the Operation Maintenance Manual of the Exeter Chiefs Rugby Bridge which irrefutably proves the GIA/3037/2011 is at best, unlawful…….

As you are aware GIA/3037/2011 is currently awaiting Court of Appeal Permission. I believe GIA/3037/2011 to be not only a rogue decision, I believe it is both defamatory and libelous to my good name and I put you on notice that I will be seeking legal Redress on these two matters at a later date. Hence, my FOIA request.

I suggest/recommend that the Information Commissioner should write and immediately request the Ministry of Justice to withdraw GIA/3037/.2011 from the statute book and I also suggest/recommend the new 37 page Vexatious Document should be withdrawn with immediate effect owing to my allegations they are both unlawful

With thanks

Yours sincerely

Alan M Dransfield



Email ban from the Upper Tribunal

Information Commissioner Posted on Sat, September 07, 2013 17:15:48

Friday, May 31, 2013 8:21 AM

Subject: FOI REQUEST TO THE UPPER TRIBUNAL

Upper Tribunal President Mr Justice Charles.

Dear Sir

I would be most grateful if you would pass this email onto the Upper Tribunal, as I been placed under an email ban by the UT. Quite frankley, I think the UT email ban against me is part of a wider conspiracy to block and obstruct justice. Whether or not the email ban is a lifetime ban I know not, neither do I know if I can appeal against it.

With thanks

Alan M Dransfield



No response from the ICO Board yet

Information Commissioner Posted on Sun, September 01, 2013 18:55:23

Friday, August 30, 2013 7:30 PM
Richard.Bailey@ico.gsi.gov.uk

Dear Mr Bailey

Subject: Polite followup to my letter to the Board of Governors

I am sure you will recall my letter to the ICO Board of Governers and Non/Executive Directors approximately 3 weeks ago. I would be most grateful if you would do a follow up for me please.

With thanks

Yours sincerely

Alan M Dransfield



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