“Justice Secretary Jack Straw has issued a ‘veto’ certificate under section 53 of the Freedom of Information Act (2000), overruling the Information Tribunal’s decision of 27 January upholding the Information Commissioner’s decision of 19 February 2008.”
Ministry of Justice, 23rd February 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Floe Telecom Ltd v Office of Communications and Another
Court of Appeal
“Where a tribunal had made unnecessary findings which were damaging to the public interest, it was appropriate for the Court of Appeal to entertain the regulator’s appeal against those findings although he had won.”
The Times,23rd February 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
“A novel issue, the striking of a balance between the public interest in national security and the public interest in open justice, the rule of law and democratic accountability, lay at the heart of the court’s consideration of whether to restore passages, summarising information relating to an arguable case of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of the claimant, which had been redacted from the court’s first open judgment at the request of the Foreign Secretary on grounds of national security. The rule of law required that the determination of where the balance lay was ultimately for the decision of the court.”
WLR Daily, 5th February 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Regina v Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Trust
Court of Appeal
“It was against the public interest to punish by a large fine a not-for-profit organisation, carrying out work for the public benefit, where a failing occurred without fault on the part of that body, but through an act or default of an employee, to whom the task was properly delegated and who was properly trained.”
The Times, 10th October 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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Privy Council
“The defence of qualified privilege established in Reynolds v Times Newspapers Ltd ([2001] 2 AC 127) was available not only to the press and broadcasting media but could also extend to the publication by any person of material of public interest.”
The Times, 15th February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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Commissioner of Police of Bermuda and Another v Bermuda Broadcasting Co Ltd and Others
Privy Council
“The public interest in the freedom of the media to disseminate information relating to those who submitted themselves for election as legislators overrode the public interest in maintaining the confidentiality of documents relating to a police investigation into allegations of corruption.”
The Times, 24th January 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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