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Anon at 12.12 - to be fair, this is the LSB making a good attempt to bring themselves down to the same (low) level of respect that the SRA has.

What it does make yet clearer is that the Leigh Day case was being treated exceptionally by the SRA, sufficient to require multiple discussions with the LSB.

Of course we don't know which party instigated those meeting, nor even what the purpose was. It could have been literally one sentence when discussing budgets/expenditure (e.g. "obviously our prosecution costs for this year will be higher due to the Leigh Day case, though we would expect those to be recovered in the event of a successful prosecution." )

The notes may be that innocuous, and the LSB may be simply holding firm to the principle that such discussions should not be subject to FOI requests, and that to respond to one such request would lead to inferences in other cases.

I can't say I'm convinced that's the real reason though.

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