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Heather Brooke made this Freedom of Information request to Olympic Delivery Authority
The request was partially successful.
From: Heather Brooke
11 May 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 I seek the following
information annually for the years since the ODA came into
existence:
1. The number of times legal action of any kind has been suggested
by the ODA's legal team to any outside party or parties.
2. A listing of these instances including date and type of supposed
violation: eg infringement of trademark, copyright infringement,
defamation/libel etc.
3. Copies of communication from the ODA in which legal action was
threatened and the end result (if any).
4. A listing of all cases in which legal action was brought or
settled.
5. If any settlement was made, the costs of these settlements
annually.
Yours faithfully,
Heather Brooke
From: Information Officer
Olympic Delivery Authority
12 May 2009
Dear Ms Brooke,
Thank you for your request for information. Your request has been
logged and has been allocated for a response to be prepared. We aim to
respond to all requests made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
within 20 business days from the date of receipt, however if we are
unable to respond within that period or if we require clarification we
will make contact with you. Please note that the end of May Bank Holiday
falls during your 20 working day period and as such, does not count
towards the 20 working day period for your FOIA request.
For all future contact with us in respect of this enquiry, please quote
the following reference number EN00308.
Yours sincerely
Penelope Jarvis
Information Law Compliance Manager
Legal Department
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From: Information Officer
Olympic Delivery Authority
8 June 2009
Dear Ms Brooke
Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act, please find attached our response to your request.
Should you have any difficulty in opening the attachment, please do not
hesitate to contact us.
Yours sincerely
Penelope Jarvis
Information Law Compliance Manager
Legal Department
Olympic Delivery Authority
23rd Floor,
One Churchill Place,
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5LN
Switchboard: +44 (0) 203 2012 000
Fax: +44 (0) 203 2012 001
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From: Heather Brooke
8 June 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Olympic Delivery
Authority's handling of my FOI request 'Legal actions threatened by
ODA legal team'.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/le...
I find your answer pedantic in the extreme. You make great efforts
to somehow construe common English words such as 'to' 'by' and
'against' in such a way that you can claim you don't hold the
information I requested. Some might call this a clear example of
willful obstruction.
Do you mean to tell me the ODA holds no records of how often and
against whom it has threatened legal action? I find that difficult
to believe. Particularly when I read on the ODA's own website the
following:
http://www.london2012.com/about/our-bran...
"The London 2012 Organising Committee is obliged to protect the
Games' Marks in order to raise the funds needed to host the 2012
Games. Unauthorised use of the Games' Marks is against the law.
The London 2012 Organising Committee expects that everyone will
refrain from unauthorised use of the Games' Marks. If necessary,
however, the London 2012 Organising Committee is prepared to take
legal action to protect the Games' Marks.
This could include court orders for the seizure of unauthorised
merchandise and the payment of compensation."
I therefore look forward to a substantive reply in the positive.
Yours sincerely,
Heather Brooke
From: Heather Brooke
8 June 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
As a follow on to my internal review request I should ask that
under your section 16 duty to provide advice and assistance if you
know of any other body who holds this information instead of the
ODA (which presumably you do as it directly relates to the legal
affairs of the ODA) that you would pass on to me who this
organisation is.
Yours sincerely,
Heather Brooke
From: Information Officer
Olympic Delivery Authority
10 June 2009
Dear Ms Brooke,
We acknowledge your request for an internal review (as attached) of your
FOIA request EN00308. Your request has been logged and has been allocated
for a response to be prepared. While the FOIA does not provide a specific
timeframe for a response to an internal review, we aim to respond to all
internal reviews within 20 business days from the date of receipt, however
if we are unable to respond within that period we will make contact with
you.
For all future contact with us in respect of this enquiry, please quote
the following reference number APP0021.
Yours sincerely,
Penelope Jarvis
Information Law Compliance Manager
Legal Department
Olympic Delivery Authority
Mailpoint: 7A,
23rd Floor,
One Churchill Place,
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5LN
Switchboard: +44 (0) 203 2012 000
Fax: +44 (0) 203 2012 001
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From: Information Officer
Olympic Delivery Authority
1 July 2009
Dear Ms Brooke
Further to your request for an Internal Review of your Freedom of
Information Request EN00308, please find attached the ODA's response to
this review.
Should you have any difficulty opening the attached document, please
contact us.
Yours sincerely
Penelope Jarvis
Information Law Compliance Manager
Legal Department
Olympic Delivery Authority
23rd Floor,
One Churchill Place,
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5LN
Switchboard: +44 (0) 203 2012 000
Fax: +44 (0) 203 2012 001
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From: Heather Brooke
25 August 2009
Dear Ms Jarvis,
I have recently seen information stating that the ODA has
threatened a blogger with defamation. Please see:
http://www.rjw.co.uk/news-events/directn...
You may recall that two months ago the ODA confirmed to me that it
had never once threatened legal action. Can you please confirm that
the case mentioned above was filed after my request and that it is
the first and only legal action threatened by the ODA.
Yours sincerely,
Heather Brooke
From: Heather Brooke
20 October 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
I have not received a reply to my correspondence of 25th August
2009. Please could you confirm that you have seen it and that you
will respond.
Yours faithfully,
Heather Brooke
Julian cheyne left an annotation (11 December 2010)
How bizarre! No reply seems to have been received to this request. The story was covered on the Games Monitor website in August 2009 http://www.gamesmonitor.org.uk/node/857
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