Thank you, everyone, for your presentations.
I'd like to talk about exemptions. I'd like to first deal with third party exemptions.
Recommendation 4.17 of the Information Commissioner's March 2015 report entitled “Striking the Right Balance for Transparency—Recommendations to modernize the Access to Information Act”, reads:
The Information Commissioner recommends a mandatory exemption to protect third-party trade secrets or scientific, technical, commercial or financial information, supplied in confidence, when the disclosure could reasonably be expected to:
She then lists a number of factors where there would be prejudice. This is moving from mandatory exemption for third party information to limiting it by an injury test. I'd be interested in your thoughts on third party information unlimited by an injury test.
I'll start with counsel, I suppose.