Accountancy exam student fails in appeal over right to be given the original scripts

In 2017, Peter Nowak won a European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling that his scripts were personal data. Ultimately he was provided with a copy of that data by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ireland (ICAI) which ran the exams for trainee accountants. However, an issue in relation to access to or right to the original scripts themselves remained. File image

A man who won a landmark challenge over access to copies of his accountancy exam scripts has failed in an appeal in which he claimed he also had a right of access to or to be given the originals because of his fears of "doctoring" of the papers.

In 2017, Peter Nowak won a European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling that his scripts were personal data. Ultimately he was provided with a copy of that data by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ireland (ICAI) which ran the exams for trainee accountants. The matter arose out of his request for access having failed to pass his exams in 2009.