FT/EA/2024/0427 - [2025] UKFTT 01126 (GRC)
Fecha: 24-Sep-2025
Issues
Issues
The issues for the Tribunal to determine are:
Whether disclosure would or would be likely to prejudice the prevention or detection of crime;
Whether disclosure would or would be likely to prejudice the operation of the immigration controls;
If either exemption under section 31 is engaged, whether the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information;
Whether, in relation to the relevant extract, section 42 is engaged and, if so, whether the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.
In assessing questions (i) and (ii) above, the Tribunal must consider whether:
the actual harm which is envisaged relates to the applicable interests within the exemption/s it has cited;
whether there is a causal link between disclosure and prejudice to those interests; and
whether the level of prejudice that is envisaged is met.
- Heading
- Introduction
- Factual background
- The relevant information held in response to the request
- The request and responses
- Decision notice
- Grounds of Appeal
- The response of the Commissioner
- The Appellant’s reply to the Commissioner’s response
- The response on behalf of the Home Office (Second Respondent)
- Legal Framework
- The public interest balance
- The role of the Tribunal
- Issues
- Evidence
- Discussions and conclusions
- Would disclosure of the requested material prejudice or be likely to prejudice the prevention or detection of crime?
- Would disclosure of the requested material prejudice or be likely to prejudice the operation of the immigration controls?
- Public interest balance
- Section 42 of FOIA
- Ancillary issues
- Gist
- Conclusions