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Dear Annie Palade,
 
Thank you for your email. We will treat your request for information as a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, received by the university on 16th February 2024. We will endeavour to respond to your request within the statutory 20 working day time frame.
 
Please note that the university has adopted the Model Publication Scheme and also publishes FOI responses on our Disclosure Log. The Fees Regulations state that requests received within 60 consecutive working days can be aggregated.

Kind Regards,

Lakeisha Dowsey-Magog (she/her)
Information Compliance Officer
Department of Business Assurance
King’s College London
Room: SW1.09
Somerset House East Wing
Strand Campus
WC2R 2LS

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Dear Annie Palade,

Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“the
Act”)

Further to your recent request for information held by King’s College
London, I am writing to confirm that the requested information is held in
part by the university.

Your request

We received your information request on 16^th February 2024 and have
treated it as a request for information made under section 1(1) of the
Act.

You requested the following information:

Could you please release all of the past exam papers taken by students for
the Law of Trusts exams for the earliest years possible, until 2019?

If possible, please release examiner's reports and model answers.

Our response

The University can confirm it holds some of the requested exam papers and
examiner’s reports, however, this information has been withheld in
accordance with section 43(2) of the Freedom of Information Act –
Commercial Interests.

In the awarding of credit by universities, teaching and assessment are
explicitly linked and cannot be separated; together they are the ‘assets’
that make up our degree programmes.

The University believes disclosure of the requested information would
prejudice the University’s commercial interests by giving an unfair
advantage to its competitors and by devaluing the University’s own assets.
Universities are required to operate in a highly competitive global market
with other HEIs and, if disclosed, the requested information would be
freely exploited by the University’s competitors to modify their own
teaching and assessment in response. Publication to the world would also
dilute the value of the University’s assets: individuals may believe they
can obtain a similar level of education through use of the materials
alone, prejudicing student recruitment.

The University acknowledges that there is always inherent public interest
in transparent practice, and in the public being able to judge the
validity of the course content and assessment offered by HEIs. However, as
a public authority in receipt of public funds, the University must also
consider the weight of public interest in ensuring the use of public funds
efficiently, through maintaining its ability to operate competitively and
generate income. A significant amount of time and resource is devoted to
producing these assets, they are a core commercial asset of the University
on which student recruitment and retention are based, therefore on this
occasion we find the public interest favours withholding the information.

Moreover, the ICO has found that such reports are commercially sensitive
(As in ICO Decision Notice: FS50866848). The arguments set out in this
decision also apply here.

This completes the university’s response to your information request.

Your right to complain

If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your
information request or feel that it has not been properly handled you have
the right to complain or request a review of our decision by contacting
the Director of Information Governance & Data Protection Officer within 60
days of the date of this letter.

Further information about our internal complaints procedure is available
at the link below:

[1]https://www.kcl.ac.uk/policyhub/freedom-...

In the event that you are not content with the outcome of your complaint
you may apply to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally,
the Information Commissioner cannot make a decision unless you have
exhausted the internal complaints procedure provided by King’s College
London.

The Information Commissioner can be contacted at the following address:

The Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Yours sincerely,

Lakeisha Dowsey-Magog (she/her)

Information Compliance Officer

Department of Business Assurance

King’s College London

Room: SW1.09

Somerset House East Wing

Strand Campus

WC2R 2LS

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