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Â鶹Éç at the Tribunal

Martin Rosenbaum | 18:18 UK time, Wednesday, 20 December 2006

As is pointed out from time to time by commenters on this blog, the Â鶹Éç itself doesn't always respond to FOI requesters by sending them all the information they have asked for.

Some people think that this means I am guilty of breath-taking hypocrisy. My point of view is that no public authority subject to FOI is bound to release everything it's asked for, and it would be bizarre to argue that just because the Â鶹Éç gets FOI requests it should be disbarred from making any.

Be that as it may, the Â鶹Éç has been involved in an interesting case today at the . The Â鶹Éç has declined to reveal the minutes of the Governors meeting in January 2004 which ended Greg Dyke's position as Director-General of the Â鶹Éç in the wake of the Hutton Report.

The Information Commissioner backed the Â鶹Éç in this stance, and the case has been appealed to the Tribunal by the Guardian and the open government campaigner Heather Brooke, both of whom had put an FOI request for the minutes to the Â鶹Éç. Their appeal is supported by Greg Dyke.

Since June 2005 the Â鶹Éç has made public the minutes of Governors meetings, while redacting those parts of them which it feels must remain confidential.

It will be several weeks before the Tribunal announces whether it thinks the minutes of the January 2004 meeting should join them in the public domain.

UPDATE (Thursday): In my copy of today's Guardian, page 2 told me that I could read about the case on page 13, but when I reached page 13 it wasn't there. It looks like the story got dropped after the earlier editions. But if you're interested in the Guardian's account of yesterday's proceedings (and it reflects both sides of the story), you can still read it .

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