Green Templeton College, University of Oxford

The complainant has requested information relating to the admissions process for medicine at Green Templeton College (‘the College’). The College refused to comply with the request, citing section 14(1) (vexatious requests) of the FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that the request was vexatious and therefore the College was entitled to rely upon section 14(1) to refuse it. However, in failing to provide its refusal notice to the complainant within twenty calendar days of receiving the request, the College breached section 17(5) (Refusal of request) of the FOIA. The Commissioner does not require the College to take any further steps.