MOD Vs Nuclear Test Veterans

m sykes made this Freedom of Information request to Ministry of Defence

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From: m sykes

26 May 2010

Dear Ministry of Defence,
Please advise current costs to date civilian Counsel representing
MOD in its ongoing High Court action?

Yours faithfully,

Meggie Sykes

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From: CIO-FOI (MULTIUSER)
Ministry of Defence

27 May 2010

Dear Meggie Sykes,

Thank you for your correspondence dated, 26th May 2010 for information
under The Freedom of Information Act 2000.

However, could you please specify which High Court action you are
referring to.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Regards,

MOD

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From: m sykes

27 May 2010

Dear CIO-FOI (MULTIUSER), Dear Multiuser
All costs relative Nuclear Test Veterans legal actions including
the current one. So far as the ongoing one is concerned costs to
date will be fine.

Yours sincerely,

m sykes

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From: m sykes

25 June 2010

Dear CIO-FOI (MULTIUSER), BNTVA vs MOD current

Yours sincerely,

m sykes

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From: m sykes

27 June 2010

Dear CIO-FOI (MULTIUSER),
Some forther information to enable knowledge of Nuclear Test
Veterans Litigation. Please acknowlrdge receipt.

Royal Courts of Justice Queen's Bench Division
Atomic Veterans Litigation Group
TLQ/08/0023
AO and others v's Ministry of Defence.

I hope this further information will enable you to let me have the
accummulated costs of court actions Atomic Veterans v's MOD to
date.

Yours sincerely,

m sykes

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From: m sykes

17 July 2010

Dear CIO-FOI (MULTIUSER), You are now seriously in breach of the
law.
If you require further time you must advise why that is necessary.
This you have failed to do.

Yours sincerely,

m sykes

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From: m sykes

24 July 2010

Dear CIO-FOI (MULTIUSER), Please refer for Internal Review. You
have given me no explanation for your long overdue reply in breach
of FOIA2000

Yours sincerely,

m sykes

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From: m sykes

20 August 2010

Dear CIO-FOI (MULTIUSER),You are now seriously in breach of the
law.
Please reply within 48 hours

Yours sincerely,

m sykes

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From: DBR-CLCP-SCO Policy(Nash, Adrian Mr)
Ministry of Defence

25 August 2010

Ms Sykes,

The Department has been attempting to send a reply in respect of your
question relating to Nuclear Test Veterans but the e-mails have failed to
get through.

We are trying again in the hope that this message reaches you.

Question: Please advise current costs to date Civilian Counsel
representing MOD in ongoing High Court action.

Answer: From the start of the case in 2005 the total paid to date to
Counsel representing MOD in the Nuclear Test Veterans Group action is
£1,831,520.46.

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Adrian Nash

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Common Law Claims & Policy

Directorate of Business Resilience

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From: m sykes

25 August 2010

Dear DBR-CLCP-SCO Policy(Nash, Adrian Mr), Interesting.
Please list dates and details of all failed attempts to e mail
referred to in mitigation

Yours sincerely,

m sykes

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From: DBR-CLCP-SCO Policy(Nash, Adrian Mr)
Ministry of Defence

26 August 2010

Ms Sykes,

Please find details of failed delivery attempts details as follows:

Sent 28 July 2010 15:13
Sent 30 July 2010 09:28
Sent 30 July 2010 09:32
Sent 30 July 2010 09:48
Sent 19 August 2010 15:21
Sent 19 August 2010 15:25
Sent 19 August 2010 15:30
Sent 20 August 2010 11:42

If you have any further questions concerning the Nuclear Test Veterans action you should submit an official request for information via the process described in the link below.

http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/Contac...

DBR-CLCP Senior Claims Officer (Policy)

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From: m sykes

26 August 2010

Dear DBR-CLCP-SCO Policy(Nash, Adrian Mr),
There clearly is a reason why your attempts at emailing failed.
Have you investigated?
If so, where did the fault(s) lie?

Yours sincerely,

m sykes

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From: DBR-CLCP-SCO Policy(Nash, Adrian Mr)
Ministry of Defence

26 August 2010

Ms Sykes,

We tried to email you from more than one terminal to ensure that the
problem was not isolated to one machine. The terminals are in daily use
and we did not experience any problems in sending emails to addresses
other than yours.

The important thing is that we have now established contact and provided
the information requested.

DBR-CLCP Senior Claims Officer (Policy)

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From: m sykes

26 August 2010

Dear DBR-CLCP-SCO Policy(Nash, Adrian Mr), I fear the problem is
elsewhere rather than with What do they Know's
I assume you will investigate further and let me know where the
shortcoming(s) linger. Failure to act will result in the sad events
being referred to Internal Review

Yours sincerely,

m sykes

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From: DBR-CLCP-SCO Policy(Nash, Adrian Mr)
Ministry of Defence

26 August 2010

Ms Sykes,

As explained in my earlier email we took reasonable and proportionate
action to ensure that the problem of emailing you was not isolated to a
specific terminal. None of the terminals presented problems in emailing
other addresses and we have received no other complaints.

Further investigation will not alter this fact. The important thing is
that we have now established contact and you have received the
information requested.

DBR-CLCP Senior Claims Officer (Policy)

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Dave Whyte left an annotation (24 December 2010)

Dear Ms Sykes,

You are dealing with the MOD. When they are in the wrong it can be extremely difficult to get a proper answer.

I note they have given a figure of £1,831,520 and please don't forget the 46p.

If I was asked how much the MOD has spent trying to silence the Nuclear veterans in an open court my estimation would be nearer £20,000,000. But the MOD do not like to admit the true amount they have wasted in order to try and stop the atrocities committed against our Armed Forces and their Allies being made public.

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m sykes left an annotation (25 December 2010)

Dear Mr Whyte

The case continues so, perhaps, your guesstimate of £20 millions--taking into account the additional MOD uniformed and civilian nan hours callously attempting to frustrate this Action, might well prove to be right.

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