HATOC legal advice

In the report presented to the June HATOC meeting reference was made to a legal opinion from a Kings Council recommending the scheme to be incompatible with the Equality Act.

Please provide the correspondence between the council and this legal adviser, specifically to include your letters of instruction, the wording of the request that you made to them and the dossier of evidence you provided upon which the KC was to make their recommendation

All correspondence with the legal adviser and information which was exchanged is subject to legal professional privilege and is therefore exempt from disclosure pursuant to section 42 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.