Government Legal Department (Bona Vacantia)
Forensic assessment · v1.0.0 · updated 1 November 2026
Translation pending: the assessment text below is in English, the authoritative record.
- Response status
- Awaiting first reply
- Last contact
- 31 October 2026
- Next date on file
- None on file
- Earlier version
- Not yet assessed
Correspondence on file
since 1 September 2026
Our reading: Since September 2026, 6 emails are on file: 4 sent, 2 received (0 with content, 2 automatic acknowledgements). Most material: 31 October 2026, sent, clarification given (ref FOIR26#25631/1): FOIR26#25631/1: asks for Mountjoy Limited and the title records to be added within the same search, and treated as a preservation notice.
- Sentrequest
The requester asks whether bona vacantia records show any property or interest of a dissolved company vested in or referred to the Crown at Llandough.
- Sentclarification given
The requester follows up.
- Sentclarification given
Further search terms for FOIR26#25631/1 (Western Ground Rents Ltd, 00342092).
- Sentclarification givenref FOIR26#25631/1
FOIR26#25631/1: asks for Mountjoy Limited and the title records to be added within the same search, and treated as a preservation notice.
2 automatic acknowledgements
The records team acknowledges receipt of the request and states a response will follow within 20 working days.
The Treasury Solicitor team gives the request the reference FOIR26#25631/1.
Not yet assessed
No forensic assessment has been written for this body yet. This page logs the correspondence on file so the first assessment can start from the record.
Case file
This file is built for a future reparations claim. Facts are as the records show them; interpretation is labelled “our reading”. Items marked “not checked” have not been compared with the original record.
(a) Conduct timeline
4 dated interactions, oldest first; 2 automatic acknowledgements are left out. Quotations are verbatim from the institution’s email; where the reply’s substance was an attachment, the email subject is quoted instead.
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| Date | Direction | Reference | Type | Verbatim |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 October 2026 | sent | — | request | Subject: FOI request — Western Ground Rents Ltd (company no. 00342092, dissolved 1997): any bona vacantia property or interests at Llandough, Vale of Glamorgan |
| 21 October 2026 | sent | — | clarification given | Subject: RE: FOI request — Western Ground Rents Ltd (company no. 00342092, dissolved 1997): any bona vacantia property or interests at Llandough, Vale of Glamorgan |
| 29 October 2026 | sent | — | clarification given | Subject: RE: FOI request — Western Ground Rents Ltd (company no. 00342092, dissolved 1997): any bona vacantia property or interests at Llandough, Vale of Glamorgan |
| 31 October 2026 | sent | FOIR26#25631/1 | clarification given | Subject: RE: FOI request: Western Ground Rents Ltd (00342092) [FOIR26#25631/1]: addition of Mountjoy Limited and title documents |
(b) Inconsistencies and gaps
None found in the correspondence on file.
(c) Quarantined-name links
Records on the quarantine register (Kissed Frogs) that sit in, or came from, this institution’s holdings. None is treated as settled.
No quarantined-name record on the register is linked to this institution’s holdings.
(d) Duty and liability — our reading
Liability indicators (our reading): none
- Duty
- Freedom of Information Act 2000 s.1 and s.10 (confirm or deny, and supply held information within 20 working days); Environmental Information Regulations 2004 for land and environmental records; records management under the s.46 Code of Practice; Public Records Act 1958 selection and transfer for central government records.
- Indicators the duty was not met
- none found in the correspondence on file.
- Evidence still needed to confirm
- the institution’s retention schedule and disposal record for the series in question; the catalogue or file list it searched; any internal review or complaint outcome.
- Likely extent of exposure if confirmed
- An ICO decision notice or a records-management finding; any reparations claim would also need a link between a records failure and the loss.
(e) Evidence still needed
- Inspect the files it names, or their transferred copies at the archive. for paid visit list
Versions
| 1.0.0 | 2026-11-01 | First page: correspondence log. |