Jerry Ugochukwu Okoye v The Information Commissioner

Facts

The applicant, Mr Jerry Ugochukwu Okoye, complained to the Information Commissioner on 28 May 2025 about the Crown Prosecution Service's handling of his personal data and its response to what he said was a data subject access request. The Commissioner's case officer replied on 13 June 2025 that the matter fell outside the Commissioner's remit, the CPS having dealt with the material as disclosure of prosecution material under section 7A of the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996, which the Commissioner does not regulate, and maintained that view on review. On 14 July 2025 the Commissioner's Reviewing Officer accepted that a subject access request made on 12 May 2025 needed further enquiry, together with a possible disclosure of personal data to solicitors who had ceased to act, and on 1 September 2025 issued a revised outcome recording the CPS's account of delays attributed to administrative error, a response sent on 2 July 2025, and a decision that no further regulatory action was required. Dissatisfied, the applicant applied to the Tribunal under section 166(2) of the Data Protection Act 2018, seeking among other things to quash the Commissioner's decision and to compel a fresh investigation. The Commissioner applied to strike out the application.