An elector sought disclosure under the 1988 Act concerning a contract with certain contractors. The authority refused saying that they were commercially sensitive, and the company said that doisclosure would affect its own human rights.
Held: The right to information under the 1988 Act was not so extensive as to override the claimant’s right to protection of its commercially sensitive documents. Valuable commercial information was protectable as a possession under the first protocol. The exercise in any such case is always fact driven and context sensitive.
Rix, Etherton, Jackson LJJ
[2010] EWCA Civ 1214, [2010] WLR (D) 273
Bailii, WLRD
Audit Commission Act 1998, European Convention on Human Rights 1, Freedom of Information Act 2000 50
England and Wales
Citing:
Cited – Regina v Special Commissioner And Another, ex parte Morgan Grenfell and Co Ltd HL 16-May-2002
The inspector issued a notice requiring production of certain documents. The respondents refused to produce them, saying that they were protected by legal professional privilege.
Held: Legal professional privilege is a fundamental part of . .
Cited – Regina (HTV Ltd) v Bristol City Council QBD 14-May-2004
The claimant sought disclosure by the respondent of their accounts, intending to use the material in a television program.
Held: As ratepayers, they were entitled to the information. The respondent was not free to refuse it because it . .
Appeal from – Hertfordshire County Council v Veolia Water Central Ltd QBD 19-Feb-2010
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Cited by:
Cited – Phillips v Newsgroup Newspapers Ltd and Others ChD 17-Nov-2010
The claimant had been assistant to a well known publicist. The defendant had settled an action brought by her principal for hacking his mobile telephone, in the course of which it appeared that the claimant’s phone had also been hacked. She now . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Information, Local Government, Human Rights
Updated: 09 November 2021; Ref: scu.425613