Norfolk County Council

The complainant requested information relating to legal advice sought about the ‘Norwich Western Link Road’ project from Norfolk County Council (‘the Council’). This was a refined request over a shorter time period, for the same information as their previous request, which became the subject of a decision notice issued under case reference IC-129579-H6R9 . As with the previous request, the Council refused this refined request on the basis of regulation 12(4)(b) (manifestly unreasonable) with reference to the likelihood of regulation 12(5)(b) (course of justice) being engaged for much of the information captured by the request. As with the previous request, the Commissioner’s decision is that the Council was entitled to rely on regulation 12(4)(b) to refuse the request.