Departure of a member of staff – Mr Mark Irvine (Mr Irvine) requested from South Lanarkshire Council (the Council) information regarding the early retiral of a particular employee. The Council responded by providing some information, but it maintained that it was not obliged to comply with some parts of the request, on the grounds that these constituted repeated requests for the purposes of section 14(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA). Following a review, in which some further information was disclosed to Mr Irvine and the Council continued to rely on section 14(2) of FOISA, Mr Irvine remained dissatisfied and applied to the Commissioner for a decision.
Following an investigation, the Commissioner found that the Council had dealt with Mr Irvine’s request for information in accordance with Part 1 of FOISA by applying the provision in section 14(2) of FOISA for point IV of Mr Irvine’s request. He did not require the Council to take any action.
Citations:
[2011] ScotIC 099 – 2011
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Updated: 23 September 2022; Ref: scu.447303