date: Wed Jun 4 17:07:25 2008 from: Phil Jones subject: FW: Freedom of Information Act request (FOI_08-23) - Appeal to: "Palutikof, Jean" Jean Sorry to bring you back down to earth! Can you read the attached - a glass of wine would help, perhaps several. Keith got an initial request which developed in CRU01.pdf. We then got the second one CRU02 which was replied to with the refusal letter (the incorrect date was changed before this went). We have just got CRU03. What Keith and Tim did was to email all the CLAs and LAs on Ch 6, to ask if they would be happy for Keith/Tim to send emails relating to Ch 6 discussions. They all refused, hence the refusal letter. What we're now considering doing is to refer him to WG1 and/or IPCC in Geneva. I know that there is likely only Melinda Tignor left in Boulder. Susan changed her email address a few months ago. John Mitchell did respond to a request from Holland. John had conveniently lost many emails, but he did reply with a few. Keith and Tim have moved all their emails from all the named people off their PCs and they are all on a memory stick. So any thoughts on how to respond? TSU for WG2 was mentioned on the first request! As you and Tom know Keith and I are nowhere near the world's best for structured archiving - working as we do on sedimentary sequencing! Cheers Phil X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:42:50 +0100 To: Phil Jones From: Tim Osborn Subject: FW: Freedom of Information Act request (FOI_08-23) - Appeal Subject: FW: Freedom of Information Act request (FOI_08-23) - Appeal Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 13:56:08 +0100 X-MS-Has-Attach: yes X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Freedom of Information Act request (FOI_08-23) - Appeal Thread-Index: AcjGNBtb+4Ihq3LkQMeLkdRU5NTvsAADEkAg From: "Palmer Dave Mr \(LIB\)" To: "Briffa Keith Prof \(ENV\)" , "Osborn Timothy Dr \(ENV\)" , "Mcgarvie Michael Mr \(ACAD\)" Cc: "Colam Jonathan Mr \(ISD\)" Gents, The expected response from Mr. Holland. We now need to invoke our complaints/appeal procedure contained within the UEA Code of Practice for Responding to Requests (<[1]https://www1.uea.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.2750!uea_manual_draft_04b.pdf>https://www1.uea .ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.2750!uea_manual_draft_04b.pdf). We have a multi-stage process; first, I try to resolve it informally, then it goes to the Director of ISD, and finally, it can go to an internal 'Adjudication Board' - we have never reached this latter stage on any appeal to date - we usually resolve the matter or it ends up with the ICO prior to this stage. Please note, that the ICO will not hear an appeal unless all avenues of internal complaint process have been explored/undertaken. It should also be noted that neither the Act, nor any Code of Practice mandates what sort of complaints process we should have; merely that one should be in existence, be fair, be known to the requester, and used in situations such as this. Please also note that we have to provide a time limit for response - in our Code, we give ourselves 4 weeks. (28 calendar days) I will acknowledge the complaint/appeal and will assess whether there is any room for an informal resolution of this request. I doubt that there is much room here but I'm bound to look for it... Should it go to the Director of ISD, I will prepare a briefing paper setting out the issues for him from a FOIA perspective; and then he will 'rule'. I have not had the opportunity to review Mr. Holland's response closely as yet but will do so and get back to you... there are some aspects that you may be in a better position to comment on than I (e.g.. issues of confidentiality of correspondence; amount/location of correspondence) and I would appreciate your input. Michael, once we have had an opportunity to review, worth another meeting? Cheers, Dave cc. to Jonathan Colam for information ---------- From: David Holland [[2]mailto:d.holland@tesco.net] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:14 PM To: Palmer Dave Mr (LIB) Subject: Re: Freedom of Information Act request (FOI_08-23) Thank you. I have attached my reply David Holland ----- Original Message ----- From: <[3]mailto:David.Palmer@uea.ac.uk>Palmer Dave Mr (LIB) To: <[4]mailto:d.holland@theiet.org>d.holland@theiet.org Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 4:13 PM Subject: Freedom of Information Act request (FOI_08-23) Mr. Holland, Attached please find a response to your request received on 5 May 2008. If you have any questions don't hesitate to contact me. Cheers, Dave Palmer <> ____________________________ David Palmer Information Policy Officer University of East Anglia Norwich, England NR4 7TJ Dr Timothy J Osborn, Academic Fellow Climatic Research Unit School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK e-mail: t.osborn@uea.ac.uk phone: +44 1603 592089 fax: +44 1603 507784 web: [5]http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/ sunclock: [6]http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/sunclock.htm Prof. Phil Jones Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090 School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784 University of East Anglia Norwich Email p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ----------------------------------------------------------------------------