Upper Tribunal Judge Wikeley grants limited permission to appeal First-tier Tribunal (GRC) costs order

I’ll declare an interest in this matter as I’m one of the parties to the case (the Appellant).

In an update to a story from January 2019 headlined Why did the First-tier Tribunal (Information Rights) take over 2 years to decide on a permission to appeal request?, the Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber) has now made a decision on permission to appeal, after a request by myself for permission to appeal was renewed to it.

The case number changes from First-tier Tribunal (GRC) case EA/2016/0054 to Upper Tribunal (AAC) case GIA/619/2019.

The Upper Tribunal received the renewed permission to appeal on the 21st February 2019, reached a decision on it dated 26th March 2019 which was received by myself as a party on the 13th April 2019.

So what took the First-tier Tribunal (GRC) 536 working days (or just over 2 years) took the Upper Tribunal (AAC) 37 working days (or just under 2 months).

Upper Tribunal Judge Nicholas Wikeley granted limited permission to appeal on grounds 1 and 3. He also decided that the matter could be dealt with on the papers.

Notice of appeal was served on the other parties (Information Commissioner and Merseyside Fire and Rescue Authority) in mid April 2019.

I’m now referred to as the Appellant in the matter rather than Applicant.

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