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Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Decision Notice) [2013] UKICO FS50438475 (22 May 2013)
Summary: The complainant requested information in relation to the salvage operation and compensation claims made following the sinking of a vessel in Nightingale Island, Tristan da Cunha which is part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha. The Commissioner-™s decision is that, other than the chain of emails from 31 March 2011 (15:23) to 4 April 2011 (16:15), the public authority was entitled to withhold all the information that it did not disclose to the complainant at time of the request and during the course of his investigation on the basis of the exceptions at regulations 12(4)(e) (internal communications), 12(5)(a) (international relations), 12(5)(b) (the course of justice), 12(5)(e) (confidentiality of commercial information) and 13 (personal data). The Commissioner requires the public authority to disclose the chain of emails from 31 March 2011 (15:23) to 4 April 2011 (16:15) subject to the application of the exception at regulation 13 to the names therein.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: EIR 12.4.e - Complaint Not upheld, EIR 12.5.a - Complaint Not upheld, EIR 12.5.b - Complaint Not upheld, EIR 12.5.e - Complaint Not upheld, EIR 13 - Complaint Not upheld