Please find attached an open letter that I have also submitted to the Lord Chief Justice and the UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry. It concerns the long-term constitutional harm caused by the Dransfield v Information Commissioner ruling in the Court of Appeal (2015), which has become the default legal tool for government departments to reject legitimate Freedom of Information (FOI) requests as “vexatious”.
As the named appellant in that case, I am calling for your investigative desks to examine the origins and dangerous implications of this ruling — which has suppressed public access to information on critical issues including Covid response decisions, fire safety, environmental risks, and infrastructure failures.
Please consider covering this overlooked judicial scandal — or contacting me for further background. The issues raised are systemic, urgent, and directly connected to wider failures of transparency seen in the Post Office Horizon scandal, Grenfell Tower, and pandemic governance.
Yours sincerely,
Alan M Dransfield
Return to Bomb Alley 1982 – The Falklands Deception, by Paul Cardin
Return to Bomb Alley 1982 – The Falklands Deception
From Paul Cardin, a Falklands Conflict veteran. This is a biting commentary, told from the heart. Also included is a 1982 diary, written on location. This book forms a forensic inquiry into several conflict-related mysteries that have never been addressed or resolved - even after 40 years.