Reprimands

Ministry of Justice

No fineReprimands

Root cause Unlawful disclosure Personal data published or shared with people who had no right to see it, including failures to redact.

What happened

A reprimand has been issued after an unauthorised disclosure of personal information. A bulk amendment facility was used by staff to effect the required adjournment of a significant number of Magistrates’ Courts’ cases. Although the bulk adjournments were primarily made during April and May 2020, it was not until late September 2020 that it became apparent that the use of the amendment facility had resulted in guilty/not guilty plea records being incorrectly recorded. In some instances, this resulted in the incorrectly recorded verdicts being automatically cascaded onto the Police National Computer (PNC).

Summarised from the notice published by the ICO on 26 August 2022. Read the original notice — it is the authoritative version.