Home Office v Information Commissioner and Cruelty Free International: [2019] UKUT 299 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Jacobs on 30 September 2019.

From:
HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
Published
24 October 2019
Categories:
Information rights
Sub-categories:
Information rights - Freedom of Information - exceptions
Judges:
Jacobs, E
Decision date:
30 September 2019

Read the full decision in GIA/171/2019.

Judicial Summary

The requester has exclusive control over the terms of a request. The public authority has power to ask for clarification, but not to change the wording of the request. The Information Commissioner has to accept the request as made, as does the First-tier Tribunal.

Updates to this page

Published 24 October 2019