A Scottish Council is spending hundreds of thousands of pounds to fight a Freedom of Information decision in the Supreme Court. 

The Scottish Herald report:

A CASH-STRAPPED Labour council is risking hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money in a bid to keep potentially damning information about sexual discrimination and unfair pay a secret from the public.

In the first case of its kind involving a Scottish public body, South Lanarkshire Council is to appeal to the UK Supreme Court against a ruling by the country’s freedom of information (FoI) watchdog.

The local authority has already had its case thrown out by Scotland’s highest court, the Court of Session, but is now mounting a last-ditch appeal in London on July 8.

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Matthew Burgess
http://www.mattburgess.co
I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.