Scottish Forestry (Subsidies for deer management) [2025] ScotIC 105_2025 (29 April 2025)
The Commissioner found that some information should be disclosed as the public interest in transparency outweighed the interest in withholding it, but upheld the application of exemptions to other information.
- Citation
- [2025] ScotIC 105_2025
- Parties
- Applicant: Scottish Forestry
- Jurisdiction
- Scotland
- Judgment Date
- 29 April 2025
- Procedural Posture
- Freedom of Information Appeal / Decision
- Outcome
- partially upheld
- Legal Topics
- Freedom of Information, Public Subsidies, Wildlife Management
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Parties
Scottish Forestry
Applicant
Procedural Posture
Freedom of Information Appeal / Decision
Legal Issues
- 1 Whether information about subsidies for deer management should be disclosed under freedom of information law
Ratio Decidendi
The Commissioner found that some information should be disclosed as the public interest in transparency outweighed the interest in withholding it, but upheld the application of exemptions to other information.
Court Disposition
partially upheld
Orders
- Some information to be disclosed to the applicant
- Other information lawfully withheld
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