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Enter case reference FT/EA/2024/0243/GDPR - [2025] UKFTT 01217 (GRC)
Fecha: 14-Oct-2025
The Tribunal may, on an application by the data subject, make an order requiring the Commissioner
The Tribunal may, on an application by the data subject, make an order requiring the Commissioner -
to take appropriate steps to respond to the complaint, or
to inform the complainant of progress on the complaint, or of the outcome of the complaint, within a period specified in the order.”
The Tribunal can only make an order under section 166(2) if one of the conditions at section 166(1)(a), (b) or (c) is met. There have been a number of appeal decisions which have considered the scope of section 166. It is clearly established that the Tribunal’s powers are limited to procedural issues, rather than the merits or substantive outcome of a complaint.
Section 165 deals with the complainant’s right to make a complaint and states that:
- Heading
- Introduction
- “Allow the appeal and order the ICO to
- The strike-out application
- Legal framework
- “Orders to progress complaints This section applies where, after a data subject makes a complaint under section 165 or Article 77 of the UK GDPR, the Commissioner
- The Tribunal may, on an application by the data subject, make an order requiring the Commissioner
- If the Commissioner receives a complaint under subsection (2), the Commissioner must—
- The reference in subsection (4)(a) to taking appropriate steps in response to a complaint includes—
- Conclusions