Questão jurídica principal
Whether the appellant was entitled to access the deceased person's adult-protection files
Decisão extraída
The request could be refused because the documents contained particularly sensitive personal data and no exception to the post-mortem protection period applied.
Fundamentação extraída
After the proceedings ended, access was governed by the cantonal information and data protection act. The requested medical documents were health data and thus especially protected. No statutory basis or overriding private/public interest justified early disclosure; inheritance interests were not a protected interest for this purpose.