As you may well know we won the fight to get the PFI contract details released into the public domain, however Veolia have now gone to the court of appeal.   Here is an up date of the latest news on the case 14/07/2010.

Press freedom threat as company fights to keep council contract secret
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2010/jul/13/press-freedom-newspapers
The Guardian - 23 hours ago

Legal threat to journalists over town hall audits
http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/news/100714access.shtml

HoldTheFrontPage.co.uk - Paul Linford - 5 hours ago

Veolia tries again to prevent Notts deal disclosure
http://www.letsrecycle.com/do/ecco.py/view_item?listid=37&listcatid=217&listitemid=55783&section=local_authority

letsrecycle.com - 7 Jul 2010

Veolia
appeals against Nottinghamshire County Council information ...
http://www.mrw.co.uk/news/veolia-appeals-against-nottinghamshire-county-council-information-ruling/8603088.article

Materials Recycling Week - Philip Reynolds - 1 day ago

And last but not least the an over view of the case

Part 1   and   Part 2

Here is the original decision

Now three appeal court judges - Lords Justice Rix, Jackson and Etherton - will have to decide whether the trial judge was correct. After last week's two-day hearing they reserved their judgment to a later date...

 
   
     
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