The WLR Daily case summaries
[2021] WLR(D) 529
Upper Tribunal
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
v
Information Commissioner and others
[2021] UKUT 248 (AAC)
2021 July 1, 2; Oct 1
Farbey J, Upper Tribunal Judges Mullan, Wikeley
Freedom of information— Disclosure— Exemption— Request for information refused in reliance on alternative statutory exemptions for information supplied by or relating to security bodies and information required for purpose of safeguarding national security — Exemptions accepted to be mutually exclusive but relied on in alternative to mask involvement or otherwise of security bodies— Whether public authority entitled to rely on exemptions in alternative— Whether breach of right to freedom of expression—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 10
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Freedom of Information Act 2000 (c 36), ss 17, 23, 24