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Ofqual v Information Commissioner () [2023] UKUT 253 (AAC) (13 October 2023)
The tribunal decided that the First-tier Tribunal had not given adequate reasons for identifying the weight to be given to the public interest in disclosure of the information.
In giving directions for the rehearing, the Upper Tribunal decided:
First, Montague v Information Commissioner and the Department of International Trade [2022] UKUT 104 (AAC) applied. A public authority was not entitled to rely on information that was going to come into the public domain imminently following its refusal of the request.A HTML version of this file is not available click here or view below the pdf version : [2023] UKUT 253 (AAC)
Second, there was no precautionary approach that a tribunal had to apply when assessing evidence from a body that had access to information and expertise that the tribunal did not possess. The normal approach to assessing evidence applied.