Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2010] All ER (D) 156 (Jan)
Neutral Citation: [2010] EWHC 475 (Admin)
Court: Queen's Bench Division, Administrative Court (London)
Judge:

Calvert Smith J (Judgment delivered extempore)
Representation Philip Coppel QC (instructed by Bates Wells & Braithwaite LLP) for the appellant.
  The first respondent did not appear and was not represented.
  Jason Beer (instructed by the Legal Services Charity Commission) for the second respondent.
Judgment Dates: 19 January 2010

Catchwords

Freedom of information - Exempt information - Disclosure prohibited by or under enactment - Appellant making request for information relating to inquiries made by second respondent - Second respondent refusing to provide information - First respondent issuing decision notice stating information exempt under relevant provisions - Appellant's appeal to Information Tribunal dismissed - Whether tribunal erring - s 8 - s 32 - Inquiry Act 2005, ss 18, 41 - Inquiry Rules 2006, SI 2006/1838, r 18.

The Case

Freedom of information Exempt information. The Administrative Court held that the Information Tribunal had not misdirected itself in law in finding that information relating to an inquiry that the appellant journalist had requested was exempt under s32 of the .

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