United Kingdom Case Law

Quinn v The Information Commissioner & Anor

Quinn v The Information Commissioner & Anor [2025] UKFTT 1590 (GRC) (29 December 2025)

The Tribunal partly allowed a FOIA appeal about Mid Devon District Council’s leisure pricing reports and charges publication, ordering disclosure of most material and requiring clarification of what publication information is held.

• Freedom of information act 2000
• Commercial interests exemption
• Public interest test
• Transparency in public services
• Freedom-of-information-act-2000
• Commercial-interests-exemption

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Olatunde v Coventry City Council - Safer Housing and Communities

Olatunde v Coventry City Council - Safer Housing and Communities [2025] UKFTT 1389 (GRC) (24 November 2025)

The First-tier Tribunal allowed an appeal against a £100 fixed penalty for alleged waste bin breaches, finding no sufficient proof that statutory notices were served.

• Fixed penalty notice
• Waste disposal
• Section 46 environmental protection act 1990
• Procedural requirements for penalty
• Service of notices
• Environmental-law

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Sandhu v South Oxfordshire District Council (Re Community Right to Bid)

Sandhu v South Oxfordshire District Council (Re Community Right to Bid) [2025] UKFTT 1306 (GRC) (05 November 2025)

The Tribunal dismissed Satwinder Sandhu’s appeal and upheld South Oxfordshire District Council’s listing of the White Lion as an Asset of Community Value.

• Asset of community value
• Community right to bid
• Localism act 2011
• Planning permission
• Enforcement notice
• Community interest company

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The Corporation of Hamilton (Appellant) v Attorney General of Bermuda and another (Respondents) (Bermuda)

The Privy Council held that Bermuda’s constitutional section 1 is a preamble, not directly enforceable, and dismissed Hamilton’s appeal.

• Enforceability of constitutional preambles
• Protection of the law
• Deprivation of property
• Freedom of expression
• Standing of public bodies
• Ministerial powers over municipalities

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Forestscape Ltd v Kings Lynn & West Norfolk Borough Council

Forestscape Ltd v Kings Lynn & West Norfolk Borough Council [2025] UKFTT 1027 (GRC) (28 August 2025)

The tribunal allowed Forestscape’s appeal, holding Pentney Woods could not be listed as an Asset of Community Value because it required a caravan site licence.

• Asset of community value
• Localism act 2011
• Caravan sites and control of development act 1960
• Planning permission
• Community right to bid
• Asset-of-community-value

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Monmouthshire County Council v Information Commissioner & Anor

Monmouthshire County Council v Information Commissioner & Anor [2025] UKFTT 780 (GRC) (27 June 2025)

The First-tier Tribunal allowed Monmouthshire County Council’s appeal in part, rejecting section 41 but upholding section 43(2) over parts of a report on Newport Leisure Park.

• Freedom of information act 2000
• Exemptions to disclosure
• Commercial interests
• Confidentiality
• Public interest test
• Freedom-of-information

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Dairygen Ltd (t/a The Shire Horse) v Derbyshire Dales District Council & Anor (Re Community Right to Bid)

Dairygen Ltd (t/a The Shire Horse) v Derbyshire Dales District Council & Anor (Re Community Right to Bid) [2025] UKFTT 669 (GRC) (10 June 2025)

The First-tier Tribunal allowed Dairygen’s appeal against listing The Shire Horse as an asset of community value, finding future community use was not realistic.

• Assets of community value
• Community right to bid
• Localism act 2011
• Listing review
• Appeal procedure
• Assets-of-community-value

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Kingston Apartments Yorkshire Ltd v Kingston Upon Hull City Council & Anor (Re Community Right to Bid)

Kingston Apartments Yorkshire Ltd v Kingston Upon Hull City Council & Anor (Re Community Right to Bid) [2025] UKFTT 542 (GRC) (02 June 2025)

The First-tier Tribunal dismissed an appeal against listing the New Clarence Public House as an asset of community value, finding the nomination valid and no prejudice from notification issues.

• Assets of community value
• Community right to bid
• Procedural impropriety
• Community nomination validity
• Assets-of-community-value
• Community-right-to-bid

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Ferreira v Leicester City Council (Re Environment)

Ferreira v Leicester City Council (Re Environment) [2025] UKFTT 59 (GRC) (22 January 2025)

The tribunal dismissed an appeal against a fixed penalty notice because the notice was issued to a different person, not the appellant, who lacked standing.

• Fixed penalty notice
• Waste management
• Household waste receptacles
• Section 46 environmental protection act 1990
• Fixed-penalty-notice
• Waste-management

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Carter v Information Commissioner

Carter v Information Commissioner [2025] UKFTT 4 (GRC) (08 January 2025)

The Tribunal partly allowed a FOIA appeal about Haringey Council property records, finding section 43 was not engaged for request 1 and that one section 36 opinion was unreasonable.

• Freedom of information act 2000
• Public interest test
• Qualified person's opinion
• Commercial interests exemption
• Effective conduct of public affairs exemption
• Freedom-of-information

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