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 "id": "WB-0400",
 "ev": "EV-0600",
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 "slug": "bp_vs_buckler_1987",
 "title": "BP vs Buckler 1987",
 "authority": "Ministry of Justice",
 "url": "https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/bp_vs_buckler_1987",
 "wdtk_status": "Awaiting internal review",
 "status": "internal review",
 "references": [
  "FOI 250628005"
 ],
 "sent": "2025-06-28",
 "last_message": "2026-06-20",
 "outcome": "Not held. Internal review requested 20 June 2026; no reply.",
 "deadlines": [
  {
   "label": "Response (20 working days)",
   "from_": "2025-06-28",
   "due": "2025-07-25",
   "answered": "2025-07-17",
   "result": "met"
  },
  {
   "label": "Internal review (40 working days, the outer limit in the code of practice)",
   "from_": "2026-06-20",
   "due": "2026-08-14",
   "answered": null,
   "result": "missed (no reply)"
  }
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  "sent": 2,
  "received": 2,
  "attachments": 1
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   "n": 1,
   "wdtk_anchor": "outgoing-1887167",
   "direction": "sent",
   "date": "2025-06-28T04:44:43+01:00",
   "from": "Requester",
   "summary": "Request for records on BP Properties Ltd v Buckler (1987): 1988 letters from the constituency MP to the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chancellor's Department's replies, and internal records on the case, Great House Farm and the eviction.",
   "response_class": "request",
   "body": "Dear Ministry of Justice,\nI am writing to request any information you hold regarding the case BP vs. Buckler (1987).\nMy Member of Parliament for the Vale is Kanishka Narayan.\nI am specifically seeking:\n1. Letters sent by Alun Michael MP to the Lord Chancellor in 1988\n2. Responses from the Lord Chancellor’s Department\n3. Internal records related to BP Properties vs. Buckler, Great House Farm, or the eviction thereof\nI believe I have identified several ways in which the UK Government has acted in a manner that meets its own legal definition of a terrorist organisation. And this does not include my participation in this Regime's crimes (operating from behind a GPMG machine gun, during the Iraq war). To clarify:\nI believe my family’s farmland and farmhouse was unlawfully stolen (BP vs. Buckler, 1987).\n[two paragraphs on private family matters and a home address removed from this archived copy; the original is public on WhatDoTheyKnow]\nIf I find evidence the UK Regime now qualifies as a terrorist organisation—at least by its own definition of one—I will call for United Nations and UNICEF intervention, and invoke Article 61 of the Magna Carta.\n- I am a certified and experienced military commander and leader.\n- I left my military career with honours.\n- My source of employment 2022 - 2024 was the Welsh Government.\n- As of 2025 I am no longer allegiant or in Oath.\n- I remain bona fide (never been charged or arrested for a crime)\nRegards,\nSion Buckler\n📞 +44 203 137 7118\n📞 +44 7845 933262",
   "body_public": null,
   "wdtk_url": "https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/bp_vs_buckler_1987#outgoing-1887167",
   "attachments": []
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   "n": 2,
   "wdtk_anchor": "incoming-3066179",
   "direction": "received",
   "date": "2025-06-28T04:44:49+01:00",
   "from": "Ministry of Justice",
   "summary": "Automated receipt from the MoJ Disclosure Team mailbox: FOI response expected within 20 working days.",
   "response_class": "acknowledgement only",
   "body": "This is an automated confirmation that your email has been received by the\nDisclosure Team (Ministry of Justice) mailbox. Please be aware, this team\ndeals with a high volume of emails.\nPlease note this email address is for requests for recorded information\nunder the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and non-offender subject\naccess requests under Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA)/General Data\nProtection Regulation (GDPR).\nFreedom of Information requests\nYou can expect a response within 20 working days.\nSubject Access Requests\nYou can expect an initial response within 1 calendar month.\nAny other types of queries/requests, will be handled accordingly.",
   "body_public": "This is an automated confirmation that your email has been received by the\nDisclosure Team (Ministry of Justice) mailbox. Please be aware, this team\ndeals with a high volume of emails.\nPlease note this email address is for requests for recorded information\nunder the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and non-offender subject\naccess requests under Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA)/General Data\nProtection Regulation (GDPR).\nFreedom of Information requests\nYou can expect a response within 20 working days.\nSubject Access Requests\nYou can expect an initial response within 1 calendar month.\nAny other types of queries/requests, will be handled accordingly.",
   "wdtk_url": "https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/bp_vs_buckler_1987#incoming-3066179",
   "attachments": []
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   "n": 3,
   "wdtk_anchor": "incoming-3087059",
   "direction": "received",
   "date": "2025-07-17T10:10:38+01:00",
   "from": "Ministry of Justice",
   "summary": "Response FOI 250628005 (letter attached): no information held. Searches for the 1988 MP correspondence returned nothing; the only record held is the published Court of Appeal judgment; the Lord Chancellor's Department's 1988 policy records would have been destroyed under retention rules.",
   "response_class": "not held",
   "body": "Dear Sir/Madam,\nPlease see Freedom of Information request attached.\nKind regards\nInformation Services Division\nSecurity and Information Directorate\nService Transformation Group\n102 Petty France, Westminster, London, SW1H 9AJ\nFind out more on [1]People Finder\nFollow us on Twitter [2]@MoJGovUK",
   "body_public": "Dear Sir/Madam,\nPlease see Freedom of Information request attached.\nKind regards\nInformation Services Division\nSecurity and Information Directorate\nService Transformation Group\n102 Petty France, Westminster, London, SW1H 9AJ\nFind out more on [1]People Finder\nFollow us on Twitter [2]@MoJGovUK",
   "wdtk_url": "https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/bp_vs_buckler_1987#incoming-3087059",
   "attachments": [
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     "wb": "WB-0407",
     "title": "Ministry of Justice FOI 250628005 response: no information held (BP vs Buckler 1987)",
     "url": "https://wayback.bucklerfamily.estate/pdf/evidence/2025-07-17_moj_foi-250628005-response-redacted.pdf",
     "mime": "application/pdf",
     "original_filename": "FOI 250628005.pdf",
     "wdtk_url": "https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/bp_vs_buckler_1987/response/3087059/attach/3/FOI%20250628005.pdf",
     "note": "Two quoted paragraphs of the original request (a private home address and family matters) blacked out in this copy; the full letter is public on WhatDoTheyKnow."
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "n": 4,
   "wdtk_anchor": "outgoing-2095086",
   "direction": "sent",
   "date": "2026-06-20T21:34:39+01:00",
   "from": "Requester",
   "summary": "Internal review requested: the search scope and archive coverage for historic case material were not evidenced; ministerial correspondence and enforcement/possession records were part of the request.",
   "response_class": "internal review request",
   "body": "Dear Disclosure & Library Team,\nThank you for your response.\nI am requesting an internal review of FOI 250628005 on the basis that I do not consider the search scope and archival coverage to have been adequately evidenced in relation to historic case-linked material.\nI note your confirmation that a search identified only the Court of Appeal judgment in BP Properties Ltd v Buckler [1987] and that no further departmental records were located.\nHowever, the request also concerned:\nMinisterial correspondence (including correspondence involving Alun Michael MP and the Lord Chancellor’s Department)\nInternal departmental records relating to the case and associated enforcement/possession proceedings\nAny related administrative handling or correspondence streams\nGiven that the matter proceeded through:\nHigh Court proceedings\nCourt of Appeal (1987)\nHouse of Lords refusal (1988)\nand was subsequently the subject of an application to the European Commission of Human Rights (Application No. 14464/88, inadmissibility decision dated 14 April 1989)\nit is reasonable to expect that some level of governmental or departmental engagement, case referencing, or archival correspondence indexing may have existed at the time, even if subsequently destroyed under retention policies.\n1. Search adequacy and archival handling\nPlease confirm in the internal review:\nWhether searches included legacy file series and archived departmental correspondence systems (not only current MoJ holdings)\nWhether any cross-referencing was undertaken using case identifiers, party names, or linked litigation references\nWhether record destruction policies were applied generally or whether any exceptions exist for litigation-linked ministerial correspondence\n2. Retention and destruction assertion\nThe response states that relevant 1988 policy records “would have been destroyed” and refers to retention schedules (including ministerial correspondence retention periods).\nFor the purpose of review, please clarify:\nWhether this conclusion is based on a file-by-file audit or a general retention policy assumption\nWhether any retention exemptions applied to litigation-linked or European-level human rights correspondence arising from domestic proceedings\n3. Reasonable expectation of trace records\nGiven the formal judicial and ECHR procedural history, I would expect at minimum the possibility of:\nindexing records\ncorrespondence registers\ncase tracking references\nor archived departmental metadata even where full files no longer exist\nIf none exist, please confirm whether this conclusion is based on a structured archive search or policy inference.\nI request that the internal review focuses specifically on whether the search methodology was sufficiently broad to capture archived or legacy case-related material, rather than only extant MoJ operational records.\nYours sincerely,",
   "body_public": null,
   "wdtk_url": "https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/bp_vs_buckler_1987#outgoing-2095086",
   "attachments": []
  }
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