SIC Whether Request Vexatious and Business Names – On 8 January 2015, Ms Lynch asked Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland (SCSWIS) for information relating to the workload and job description of a named member of staff.
SCSWIS responded by providing her with the job description but withholding business names under section 33(1)(b) (commercial interests) of FOISA. It stated that it considered the remainder of her request to be vexatious in terms of section 14(1) of FOISA. Following a review, Ms Lynch remained dissatisfied and applied to the Commissioner for a decision.
The Commissioner investigated. She accepted SCSWIS’s reliance on section 33(1)(b) of FOISA in relation to business names but did not accept that the remainder of Ms Lynch’s request was vexatious. She required SCSWIS to provide Ms Lynch with an alternative response to her requirement for review, in respect of those parts of the request it considered vexatious.
[2015] ScotIC 104 – 2015
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Updated: 03 January 2022; Ref: scu.550884