cc: "Mcgarvie Michael Mr \(ACAD\)" <M.Mcgarvie@uea.ac.uk>
date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:46:04 +0100
from: "Palmer Dave Mr \(LIB\)" <David.Palmer@uea.ac.uk>
subject: RE: FOI appeal [FOI_08-23]
to: "Briffa Keith Prof \(ENV\)" <K.Briffa@uea.ac.uk>, "Osborn Timothy Dr \(ENV\)" <T.Osborn@uea.ac.uk>, "Jones Philip Prof \(ENV\)" <P.Jones@uea.ac.uk>

How appropriate! 
I was about to email you.... I am in the process of assisting Jonathan
with his deliberations and have drafted a response which I will forward
to you shortly.

I have been in communication with the ICO to get guidance on raising
additional exemptions at this point (it's ok), and also with the Met
Office who have shared some of their approaches.

A key question has arisen on the interpretation of whether we actually
'hold' this information.  The full explanation will be in the note I
send to Jonathan, but essentially I need to know the corporate interest
that UEA has in the emails requested in regards IPCC participation.

Recent guidance from the ICO indicates that it could be argued that
where a public authority has no interest in information (ie. personal
emails), it is not considered to 'hold' that information.  The Met
Office are claiming that Dr. Mitchell's participation in IPCC was
essentially outside it's organisational remit, and any storage of emails
was for Dr. Mitchell's personal benefit and nothing to do with the
organisation itself.  The emails were not created by the Met Office, nor
used by the Met Office for it's own purposes.  ICO Helpdesk staff
indicated that this interpretation, given that the facts were as stated,
would find some favour with the ICO.

So.... What interest does UEA/CRU have in the IPCC correspondence and
work that you are doing?

Cheers, Dave



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Keith Briffa [mailto:k.briffa@uea.ac.uk] 
>Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 3:34 PM
>To: Osborn Timothy Dr (ENV); Jones Philip Prof (ENV)
>Cc: Jones Philip Prof (ENV); Palmer Dave Mr (LIB)
>Subject: Re: FOI appeal
>
>no have not heard , will forward this to Dave
>cheers
>Keith
>
>At 10:32 10/07/2008, Tim Osborn wrote:
>>Hi Keith and Phil,
>>
>>if I remember right, then the decision on Holland's appeal needs to be
>>returned to him in about a week's time.  Have you heard anything from
>>Jonathan Colam?  I thought he might ask us about it before making his
>>decision?
>>
>>Tim
>
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