date: Thu, 14 May 2009 09:09:24 +0100
from: "peter.thorne" <peter.thorne@metoffice.gov.uk>
subject: [Fwd: RE: Are you still the man to talk to about MoU's?]
to: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>


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From: "Briar, Tony" <tony.briar@metoffice.gov.uk>
To: "Thorne, Peter (Climate Research)" <peter.thorne@metoffice.gov.uk>

Peter

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.

Regards

Tony  


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-----Original Message-----
From: Thorne, Peter (Climate Research) 
Sent: 13 May 2009 16:25
To: Briar, Tony
Subject: Are you still the man to talk to about MoU's?

Tony,

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. Are you still the man
to talk to about setting up a MoU on all our collaboration? If not then
who is?

Thanks

Peter
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Met Office Hadley Centre, FitzRoy Road, Exeter, EX1 3PB tel. +44 1392
886552 fax +44 1392 885681 www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs

