Saturday, August 26, 2006

AWB still fighting for document suppression


Why is it that those who are superior to these managers that do not want to release documents, just summarily fire them forthwith.

Holding onto documents clearly shows guilt or obfuscation and both should be firing offences!

Onésimo Alvarez-Moro

See article:
The wheat exporter AWB is continuing its fight to hold back documents from the oil-for-food inquiry.

Earlier this month the Federal Court reserved its judgement on the company's legal privilege claim to withhold about 800 documents, but negotiations led to the release of about 500 of those to the inquiry.

Legal representative for AWB James Judd QC today clashed with Commissioner Terence Cole about whether further documents should be produced under the inquiry's terms of reference.

The unreleased documents include more advice from a US public relations firm on whether AWB should have apologised over alleged kickbacks to the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

See full Article.