Category: environmental protection

Office of Communications v Information Comr; [2009] WLR (D) 71

“When balancing the public interest in maintaining an exception to disclosure of environmental information against the public interest in its disclosure the correct test was to consider whether the aggregate public interest in maintaining the exception outweighed the public interest in disclosure. A benefit arising from unlawful use of disclosed information could be taken into account as an aspect of the public interest in disclosure.”

WLR Daily, 27th February 2009

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Office of Communications v Information Commissioner”>Office of Communications v Information Commissioner

Court of Appeal

“Beneficial consequences flowing from the unlawful use of disclosed information could be taken into account when balancing the public interest in disclosure of environmental information against the statutory exemption from disclosure.”

The Times, 27th February 2009

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