Home Office v Information Commissioner: FTTGRC 20 Aug 2010

Right to rely before the Tribunal on exemptions not specified in the Notice of Refusal nor considered in the Information Commissioner’s Decision Notice. Sections 2(2), 17 and 58 of FOIA.
Application of section 40 of FOIA to names of civil servants by and to whom submissions to ministers are sent.
Whether legal professional privilege (s.42) applies to material derived from legal advice and, if it does, whether the public interest favours disclosure.
Ministerial communications: s.35(1)(b) and the convention of collective responsibility

Citations:

[2010] UKFTT 302 (GRC)

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Bailii

Statutes:

Freedom of Information Act 2000

Information

Updated: 01 September 2022; Ref: scu.428811