Good Practice Advice
All public authorities are encouraged to read the Decision Notices issued by the Commissioner as some contain general good practice advice.
To assist public authorities in their duties, the areas in which good practice advice has been issued in decision notices is listed below:
| Good practice area |
Relevant FOIA or Code of Practice section |
Decision Notice | ||
| Multi-question requests | 2016/0003 | |||
| Contemporaneous, robust and fully documented reasoning | CoP 3 | 2016/0003 | ||
| Content of refusal notices | FOIA 17/18 | 2016/0003 | ||
| Clarity of requests, duty to advise and assist, requesting additional information to identify the information sought | FOIA 14/15, CoP 4 | 2016/0002 | ||
| 'Internal review' & purpose of review | CoP 9 | 2016/0002 | ||