NW Legal Consortium; Historical Rates
Dear Sefton Borough Council,
Between 1st April 2010 and the 31st March 2014 Sefton Borough Council was party to a contract referred to as the North West Legal Consortium Collaboration Agreement. This related to how the council bought external legal services.
I am interested in the historical rates for the work done under this contract by a firm called Weightmans. Note that I only want the historical rates for this work, so just send me the figures that applied up to and including the financial year ending April 2014.
Please send me this information electronically.
Thank you very much,
Thomas Jones
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Kind regards,
David McCullough | Principal Lawyer
Regulation & Compliance |Corporate Legal Services | Magdalen House, 30
Trinity Road, Liverpool, L20 3NJ
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Dear Sefton Borough Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Sefton Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'NW Legal Consortium; Historical Rates'.
I see that the request has been refused because of section 43, which relates to commercial interests.
In fact, the reason that I was very specific about only asking for historical information was because this prevents section 43 from applying. What a firm's rates historical rates were cannot be considered commercially sensitive, at least not to the extent required by the public interest test.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/n...
Yours faithfully,
Thomas Jones
Dear Thomas,
Thank you for your email that we received on the 13th December 2016 requesting an internal review.
We will endeavour to respond to your complaint within 20 working days.
If you have any further questions then please let me know.
Yours sincerely
John
John Clintworth
Business & Intelligence Team
Sefton MBC
Bootle
L20 7AE
Tel: 0151 934 4827
email: [email address]
Website: http://intranet.sefton.gov.uk/busint
Dear Mr Jones,
Please find attached a letter about your internal review request.
Yours sincerely
John
John Clintworth
Business & Intelligence Team
Sefton MBC
Bootle
L20 7AE
Tel: 0151 934 4827
email: [email address]
Website: http://intranet.sefton.gov.uk/busint
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