The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC) brought a motion to seal a portion of its record of proceedings in an application for judicial review.
The applicant sought judicial review of IPC decisions regarding redacted police records.
The IPC sought to file an unredacted 'private' record under seal to prevent the premature disclosure of the very information at issue in the judicial review.
The court granted the sealing order, finding it necessary to prevent a serious risk to the integrity of the judicial review process and noting that disclosure would render the application moot.
