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20 May 2016
Issue: 7699 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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R (on the application of DHL International (UK) Ltd v Office of Communications [2016] EWHC 938 (Admin), [2016] All ER (D) 30 (May)

The Administrative Court dismissed the judicial review proceedings commenced by the claimant international door-to-door courier of goods (DHL) against the information request served on it by the defendant Ofcom. DHL was a “postal operator”, within the meaning of the Postal Services Act 2011, and the request was not a nullity or disproportionate.

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