Submitting an FOI request
If having searched the publications and statistics & research areas of the Department of Justice website you cannot find the information you require you may wish to contact the Department of Justice by letter or via the enquiry form.
Prior to making a request you should consider whether the Department of Justice is the most appropriate authority to send a request to. Your request will be answered more quickly if you write directly to the authority that holds the information.
If your request relates to any of the following Agencies:
- Northern Ireland Prison Service;
- Forensic Science Northern Ireland;
- Youth Justice Agency;
- Compensation Agency;
- NI Courts and Tribunal Service;
or any of the smaller bodies sponsored by the DOJ then you should contact them directly. Website addresses for other Northern Ireland departments and the Northern Ireland Assembly can be found in the useful links section of this website.
Your request for information can be sent by letter to the FOI Team at the address below. In order to provide an efficient service it would be helpful if you:
- Include your full postal address
- Describe in as much detail as possible the information that you require, providing any relevant dates, events or subject-headings that will enable us to ascertain if we hold the information.
- State if you have any preference for the format in which the information should be supplied (e.g. a summary or a table of statistics).
Department of Justice
Annex A
Dundonald House
Stormont Estate
Belfast
Alternatively you can submit an enquiry for information, which is not already in the public domain, via the online enquiry form. If you choose this method to submit your request it would be helpful if you described the information you require in as much detail as possible and include your full postal address as some material can only be sent as photocopied pages.
