The Qualified Person
the QP
The Qualified Person’s Opinion
the QPO
The Vice Chancellor of UoE
the VC
Public Interest Balance Test in section 2(2)(b)FOIA
the PIBT
The Upper Tribunal
the UT
The First-tier Tribunal
the FtT
Mr Bryn Morris the Registrar and Secretary of UoE
Mr Morris
The open bundle of papers prepared for the Appeal
the Bundle
A table prepared by UoE setting out its rationale for each redaction
the Table
Guidance provided by the Information Commissioner’s Office
the Guidance
Background
6. This Appeal relates to the Report which is entitled:“Review of the circumstances resulting in and arising from the cancellation of the
Centre for Criminology seminar on Trans Rights, Imprisonment and the Criminal
Justice System, scheduled to take place on 5 December 2019, and the arrangements
for speaker invitations to the Holocaust Memorial Week event on the State of
Antisemitism Today, scheduled for 30 January 2020”
7. The events surrounding the subject matter of this Appeal have been widely
reported. In summary (see for example H1656 and the Report E489):
Professor Joanna Phoenix was invited to take part in a criminology seminar at
UoE on 5 December 2019. Her talk was entitled “Trans rights and justice:
complicated contours in contemporary sex, gender and sexualities politics when
thinking about issues of justice and punishment”. On the day of the event it was
cancelled.
On 9 December 2019 the VC published a blog reporting that a review of the
cancellation was being commissioned.
Professor Rosa Freedman’s invitation to take part in an event scheduled for 30
January 2020 at UoE on “the state of antisemitism today” for Holocaust
Memorial week was initially rescinded.
We understand (see E525) that
Professor Freedman did subsequently attend that event.
Akua Reindorf KC was appointed by UoE to carry out a review and report. The
Report was published in a redacted form by UoE in May 2021 (487-594).
8. The Appellant, in the GoA (A101), set out his view of the public importance of
the Report. He said:-
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