R (Veolia ES Nottinghamshire Ltd) v Nottinghamshire County Council

Subject Matter

LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Audit — Inspection of documents — Local government elector seeking to inspect schedules to contract between local authority and private sector contractor together with associated invoices — Whether documents “relating to” accounts to be audited — Meaning of “accounts to be audited” — Whether commercial confidential information constituting “possessions” — Whether statutory right to disclosure subject to exception in relation to confidential information protected by right to protection of property — Audit Commission Act 1998, s 15(1) — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 8, Pt II, art 1

[2010] PTSR 797; [2012] PTSR 185

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