Regarding the merit of complaints, the WP29 says data protection authorities have found that "in the great majority" of cases the search engine's decision to refuse a delisting request is "justified by the fact that the information is directly related to the professional activity of the individual, or that it is pertinent in regard to current events or to purpose of the processing".
Commissions run dispute resolution processes; they generally do not rule on the merit of complaints, nor make findings for or against parties, so it was not possible to include a variable indicating how meritorious complaints were.
"I am very clear that we have acted purely on the basis of the merit of the complaint, in accordance with the rule of law," he said.
"[It] does allow for a peer representative to accompany a grievant through the process, but it does not allow for a postdoc to be a member of the grievance committee that investigates the merit of the complaint.
Mr. Andreas and the bishop never would meet, and the merits of his complaint would remain unclear.
Whatever the merits of his complaint, it is hard not to suspect a political hand at work.
The court said Friday that the panel could not make decisions until judges had ruled on the merits of the complaint.
Without ruling on the merits of the complaint, a panel of the appeals court found that West Virginia had constitutional immunity against the lawsuit.
It is a striking oversimplification, of course: whatever the merits of their complaint it surely is logically possible for one group of Christians to oppress a very different group of Christians.
Whatever the merits of that complaint, the Norwegians will be hard-pressed to match the atmosphere of farce that was achieved by a hastily organised ceremony in Beijing yesterday.
"Requiring courts to give a judgment on the merits of a complaint about the prohibition could have the effect of forcing upon them an institutional role not envisaged by the domestic constitutional order".
