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PO-2119

Document		PO-2119


File #		PA-020084-1


Institution/HIC		Ministry of the Attorney General


Summary		The appellant made a request under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the Act) to the Ministry of the Attorney General (the Ministry) – Office of the Children’s Lawyer (the OCL) for access to records concerning himself, his former spouse and their children. The Ministry located 57 pages of responsive records, and granted access to 39 of them. The Ministry withheld the remaining 18 pages on the basis of the exemption at section 49(a) (discretion to refuse requester’s own information) in conjunction with sections 13 (advice or recommendations) and 19 (solicitor-client privilege). The Ministry also refused access to these records on the basis of section 49(b) (discretion to refuse requester’s own information) in conjunction with section 21 (unjustified invasion of another individual’s personal privacy). The appellant appealed the refusal.


Legislation		FIPPA


Signed by		Rosemary Muzzi


Published		Feb 28, 2003


Type		Order


Judicial Review		Institution's application abandoned April 16, 2004 Children's Lawyer For Ontario v. John Doe, Requester, and Information and Privacy Commissioner/Ontario, Toronto Doc. 179/03 (Div. Ct.)


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