Trial of [redacted] at the Royal Court

​​Request 773601533 

Please provide the total estimated cost to the public purse of court time and court resources associated with the trial of [name redacted] at the Royal Court.
This may include:
- Total estimated public cost.
- Number of sitting days.
- Judicial and jurat costs.
- Court staffing and facilities.
I am not requesting personal remuneration details.

​Response 

The Royal Court sat for 3 full days and 5 part-days on this case. Times varied from a few minutes to several hours on the part days. 

The Judicial Greffe is unable to say how much this particular court case cost, or indeed any individual court case, as the costs of court buildings and court staff are not assigned to individual cases in its records. The Judicial Greffe does not hold any financial information that relates to the costs of external agencies such as the Law Officers' Department and individual law firms. Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 therefore applies.​ 

Personal information has been redacted from the request above and Article 25 (2) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 also 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.​​

Article 25 - Personal information 

(2)     Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a)     it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and

(b)     its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.