civil/family court user groups quarterly agendas and minutes

Summary

The requester sought quarterly agendas and minutes for Civil and Family Court User Groups from 2019 to date, but the General Registry withheld all information citing exemptions.

Key Facts

• The request covered Civil and Family Court User Groups from 2019 to the present.
• The authority held 46 documents totaling 160 pages but released none.
• The outcome was determined as 'No information sent - all held but exempt'.
• Sample content included a Family Court agenda from October 2020 and a Civil Court extraordinary meeting from May 2020 regarding COVID-19 procedures.
• The Civil Court meeting discussed remote hearings, electronic filing, and the progression of summary procedure matters during the pandemic.

Data Disclosed

• 2019
• 2020
• 2022
• 21st October 2020
• 2.30 P.M.
• 11th July 2018
• 1st May 2020
• 11:00am
• 160 pages
• 46 documents

Original Request

Further to a search of answers to FOI questions on "court users group" with 0 search results and the lack of a government response to the public consultation in 2022 to finalise the code of practice proactive publication that would have required the information to be proactively published, please supply copies of agendas, agenda item documents and minutes with action points of what appear to be quarterly meetings from 2019 to date with indication of cancelled meetings in lockdowns etc in relation to (1) the civil court users group and (2) the family court users group.