Redaction Time Cannot Count

The Information Tribunal has ruled that redaction time cannot count towards Freedom of Information (FOI) cost capping.  Indeed time spent blanking out parts of documents can not be counted when calculating whether an FOI request is too time consuming.  More details on this news story which is of interest to institutions dealing with FOI requests is available from the Out-law website at: http://www.out-law.com/page-10615

Posted on 21/12/2009