Whether a request was vexatious – On 27 October 2014, Mr James Milligan asked Glasgow City Council (the Council) for information relating to parking restriction signs in a specified area.
The Council did not respond to Mr Milligan’s request and informed him that it was not obliged to comply with his subsequent requirement for review. This was on the basis that it considered his request to be vexatious and it considered it had already given notice to this effect in relation to a previous identical or substantially similar request.
The Commissioner did not accept that the request was vexatious and found that the Council was not entitled to refuse to give notice to Mr Milligan to this effect in terms of section 16(5) of FOISA.
She required the Council to comply with Mr Milligan’s requirement for review.
[2015] ScotIC 055 – 2015
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Updated: 30 December 2021; Ref: scu.546446