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Freedom of information

11 September 2015
Issue: 7667 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Information Commissioner v Colenso-Dunne [2015] UKUT 471 (AAC), [2015] All ER (D) 15 (Sep)

The Office of the Information Commissioner (ICO) had, during the course of a raid, collected a list of names of journalists who had obtained information through an investigator. The respondent had sought disclosure of those names under a Freedom of Information request. The ICO refused the request, and that was upheld by the Information Commissioner. The First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber) determined that some of the names should be disclosed. The Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber) upheld the FTT’s decision, as there had been no error of law in its decision that the information in issue was not “sensitive personal data” within the meaning of the Data Protection Act 1998 and that its disclosure was for a legitimate purpose, rather than an unwarranted intrusion into the journalists’ privacy rights.

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