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Leeds City Council (Decision Notice) [2010] UKICO FS50298572 (02 December 2010)
Summary: The complainant requested the -˜Working file-™ that contained the original records of the Leeds City Council AGM held on 19 May 2003. The public authority responded that it would provide the public records of the meeting to the complainant, but would not provide the remainder of the -˜Working file-™ because it believed that:The request for information was not valid; andIf it was, it was vexatious. It could therefore rely on the exclusion found in section 14(1) of the Act.The complainant referred this case to the Commissioner, who found:That the requests for information dated 22 October 2009 and 26 October 2009 were valid as they complied with the requirements of section 8(1); andThat on the facts of the case a reasonable public authority could not find the requests vexatious by virtue of section 14(1).He requires that the public authority processes the requests again under the Act, without relying on the above arguments. He has also found procedural breaches of section 1(1)(a), 10(1) and section 17(5).
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 10 - Complaint Upheld, FOI 14 - Complaint Upheld, FOI 17 - Complaint Upheld