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Exeter, UK — Alan M. Dransfield, the FOI campaigner whose name became synonymous with the term “vexatious request”, has issued a public rebuttal to a 2013 Guardian article by Tim Turner which praised the legal precedent that now bears Dransfield’s name.

“In 2009, I submitted a Freedom of Information request to Devon County Council about lightning protection on a new pedestrian bridge,” says Dransfield. “They refused to answer and labeled me vexatious. But years later, they admitted the bridge wasn’t fitted with lightning protection until 2014. My request was valid all along.”

The 2013 Upper Tribunal ruling in Dransfield v ICO allowed public authorities to reject requests they deem “vexatious”, expanding the interpretation of Section 14(1) of the FOIA. Since then, the “Dransfield precedent” has been used to deny hundreds of requests, many from whistleblowers, journalists, and safety campaigners.

Dransfield is now calling out those who entrenched this misuse, including the Information Commissioner’s long-time legal adviser Richard Bailey, and successive Commissioners — Christopher Graham, Elizabeth Denham, and John Edwards — all of whom have been informed of the injustice.

“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the Dransfield case was designed by crooks to protect crooks. That may sound harsh, but history now backs me up.”

Dransfield is requesting a public correction or follow-up from The Guardian and a full review of the ongoing misuse of Section 14(1).

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Return to Bomb Alley 1982 – The Falklands Deception, by Paul Cardin

Return to Bomb Alley 1982 – The Falklands Deception, by Paul Cardin

Return to Bomb Alley 1982 – The Falklands Deception, by Paul Cardin

Return to Bomb Alley 1982 – The Falklands Deception, by Paul Cardin

Return to Bomb Alley 1982 – The Falklands Deception, by Paul Cardin

Exeter, UK — Alan M. Dransfield, the FOI campaigner whose name became synonymous with the term “vexatious request”, has issued a public rebuttal to a 2013 Guardian article by Tim Turner which praised the legal precedent that now bears Dransfield’s name.

Dransfield is now calling out those who entrenched this misuse, including the Information Commissioner’s long-time legal adviser Richard Bailey, and successive Commissioners — Christopher Graham, Elizabeth Denham, and John Edwards — all of whom have been informed of the injustice.

“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the Dransfield case was designed by crooks to protect crooks. That may sound harsh, but history now backs me up.”

Dransfield is requesting a public correction or follow-up from The Guardian and a full review of the ongoing misuse of Section 14(1).

Return to Bomb Alley 1982 – The Falklands Deception, by Paul Cardin

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