Thursday, December 22, 2005

Freedom of information victory over Whitehall's e-mail ploy / Times, 22 Dec 2005

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17129-1952735,00.html
Sam Coates
"THE public have won the right to see e-mails that were deleted by civil servants, after a tribunal overturned key restrictions on the Freedom of Information Act. Campaigners are now urging thousands of people who were told that the information they wanted was not available to resubmit their requests. This follows a ruling by the Information Tribunal that e-mails and documents that have been erased but are still stored on back-up systems are subject to the Act. "