Law Officers' Department External Counsel Costs (FOI)

​​​Request

How much has been spent on external counsel costs by the Law Officers’ Department over the last twelve months?

Response

Information held by the Law Officers’ Department is exempt from disclosure as they are not a Scheduled Public Authority under the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.  

Insufficient information is held centrally by Treasury and Exchequer in a format which would enable the question to be answered. Data would need to be extracted from various sources and manipulated to produce new information.  A Scheduled Public Authority is not required to manipulate and create new data sets in response to a Freedom of Information request, Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 therefore applies.   

Article applied

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a)     it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b)     it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.​