Thursday, January 12, 2012

Email 4291: Trying for pre-emptive legalese shield against FOI requests

"Whilst an MoU is the appropriate way to document this type of relationship, it won't be possible, even with prudent drafting, for it
to be used as a shield against requests for information under the FOI Act."

"If you can detail the our relationship (the nature of the collab')with UEA in an email to the 'legal' email inbox, one of the team will be in
touch to take this forward."

"we need to resolve our relationship with UEA's Climatic Research Unit as shown by the current FOI request on the surface temperature record. We
have nothing in writing and that puts us on a sticky wicket. We'd like to have writing for the next time it all blows up."

Email 4291 Hat tip: AJ

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