Lin v Information Commissioner: [2023] UKUT 143 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Wikeley on 21 June 2023.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
• Published: 4 August 2023

• Categories: Information rights, Tribunal procedure and practice
• Sub-categories: Information rights - Freedom of information - public authority response, Tribunal procedure and practice - tribunal jurisdiction
• Judges: Wikeley, N
• Decision date: 21 June 2023

Read the full decision in UA-2023-000363-GIA.

Judicial Summary

Public authority declined to respond to Appellant’s FOIA request, citing FOIA section 17(6) - FTT struck out appeal on basis that it had no reasonable prospects of success - Whether Appellant’s grounds of appeal to FTT, challenging the finding that the request was vexatious, enaged FTT jurisdiction under FOIA sections 57 and 58.

Published 4 August 2023