You may remember that a couple of weeks ago I reported that Stephen McNamara, Head of Legal Services at Bristol City Council was maintaining that we had no right to copies of Council documents or to inspect Council files. The rights of applicants are clearly defined in S11 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
He is now trying to pretend the requests do not exist and is crying vexatious requests under S14 of the Act.
However case law has determined that S11 is breached when the applicant has specified their preferred format at the time of making the request and this is then ignored by the authority. His lack of knowledge of the law is hard to comprehend, or is it simply that previous copies provided gave too much away.
Unfortunately the Information Commissioner's Office will have to determine this point, creating more delay. However this should be interesting given that the case law information was obtained from their website.
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