Data Protection - Subject Access question

[abc2011]

A quick question about the Data Protection Act.

I've made a request from my former university for the minutes of the examiners' meeting where they discussed my academic performance.

I've recently received the minutes, but they've redacted the names of the members of academic staff who discussed my case. This is potentially very relevant as it potentially affects the accuracy of the data. However according to the university, the names of other people are "not my data".

I was just wondering if anyone here is clued up enough on Data Protection Act to know whether they are allowed to do this or not?

Cheers.

[abc2011]

The Surveyor said:

I would guess from the OP's post that he may feel that a specific individual may have reason not to be impartial when commenting on his academic performance.

That's what I'm alluding to, yes. The person whose judgement was under discussion at the meeting wasn't present, but the minutes tell me that "[redacted] reinforced their view" and thus a specific course of action was taken/not taken.

marshalla said:

Pages 17 & 18 : https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisations/documen...

Deal with minutes of meetings.

A relevant paragraph (I think) from page 17 : "The fact that an individual attended the meeting will be personal
data about that person. However, this does not mean that everything in the minutes of that meeting is personal data about each of the attendees. "

Following that, the University is right to redact the names of those present, but not what they said.

In this case they've done the opposite. They've listed those present at the meeting, but redacted the names of those making pertinent comments.