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You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> Information Commissioner's Office >> London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames (Local government) [2025] UKICO 330663 (31 March 2025) URL: https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKICO/2025/330663.html Cite as: [2025] UKICO 330663 |
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Link for IOC full Decision notice pdf file: London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames (Local government) [2025] UKICO 330663 (31 March 2025)
The complainant submitted four requests to the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames (the Council) about emails between senior staff members on a variety of topics. The Council initially aggregated all four of the requests and refused them with reliance on section 12 (cost limit) of FOIA, however during the course of the Commissioner's investigation it amended its position and relied on section 14(1) of FOIA (vexatious) to refuse the request. The Commissioner's decision is that the requests were not vexatious and therefore the Council was not entitled to rely upon section 14(1) of FOIA to refuse them. The Commissioner also finds that the Council breached section 17(5) of FOIA by failing to provide a refusal notice within the statutory timeframe, and section 16 of FOIA by failing to provide reasonable advice and assistance to the complainant. The Commissioner requires the Council to issue a fresh response to the requests that does not rely on section 14(1) of FOIA.