29 January 2007, Local government (Other)
The complainant asked the public authority for information relating to correspondence between the Commissioners and Trustees. The public authority withheld it under section 42 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 claiming legal professional privilege and that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighed the public interest in disclosing the information. The Commissioner did not uphold the complaint but noted that the public authority had not met the obligations placed upon it by section 17.
FOI 42: Not upheld